July-September 2010 Birdlife International Pacific Partnership Newsletter

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MANU has become the 4th full Partner iAustralia, the Royal Forest and Bird ProSociety. There are now 67 full Partners iDesignate and 39 Affiliates.

MANU had been an active BirdLife Affiliawas established) and Partner-Designatefunded regional Important Bird Area (Important Seabird Islands Restoration Ptogether in various species conservationCommunity Conservation Fund, US Fish aSpecies Conservation Fund and the Britisha training and exchange programme orgathe Partnership and the Secretariat, I coPresident and its staff on their well-deserv

TIS has appointed Jacqui Evans as itsorganisations gaining of a Critical Ecosystan inventory of priority conservation sithttp://www.birdlife.org/news/news/2010/has been involved with TIS since its incepand practical roles and serving as Presi

conservationist, some of the issues JacquiSave Our Suwarrowand Say Yes to Cloththe Coral Reefs and coordinator of recyworked with BirdLife in projects dealingtranslocation to Atiu. The CEPF project,produce a Cook Islands IBA/KBA (Key Bioof IBA directories produced by Pacific ParFrench Polynesia, New Caledonia, Palau,the Partnership and the Secretariat, I csuccessful project in the Cooks.

MANU and TIS together represent the idearoots, local conservation organisations.regional partners and look forward to wor

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the BirdLife Pacific Partnership after Birdstection Society and the Palau Conservationn our Global Network along with 8 Partners

e since 1999 (when the Pacific Partnershipsince 2007. It participated in both the EC-IBA) identification project and the Pacificrogramme. BirdLife and MANU also workprojects funded by the BirdLife Internationalnd Wildlife Service, the Mohamed bin ZayedBirdwatching Fair. MANU also participated in

nised by BirdLife in Fiji in 2009. On behalf ofngratulate MANU, its Board of Directors, itsed achievement.

ull-time Programme Manager following them Partnership Fund (CEPF) grant to produces for biodiversity in the Cook Islands (see7/cook-islands-conservation.html). Jacqui

tion in 1996, as a volunteer in both technicalent of TIS for several years. A committed

has been involved in over the years are theBags campaigns, coordinator of the Year of

cling bins in schools. TIS, for its part, haswith rat control and the Rimatara Lorikeeto be implemented jointly with BirdLife, willdiversity Areas) directory, the 7th in a seriesners following those now completed for Fiji,ustralia and Samoa. Once more on behalf of

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Tui return to Chatham Island after fun

The Chatham Island tui has returned tooffshore New Zealand group for the firsWith its distinctive range of calls and tuftthroat, the tui is a common sight on maithe Chatham Islands sub-species (Prosthechathamensis), which are 30 percent larcounterparts, disappeared off the main ipredators, including cats, rats and especiaintroduced in 1911.

Fourteen tui were transferred fromIsland/Rangatira to Chatham Island in Mconservation organisation the Taiko Trust.

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All 14 transferred birds survived the firstyear, thanks in large part to the attentionto encourage the tui to stay on their land,

Liz Tuanui said the islanders, whose homeTheres a whole generation of people on tolder people who remember them. Therethe change in community awareness and stransfer. Contact David Brooks, Communci

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Redesigning mining in New Zealand

Conservationists in New Zealand are celebrating after the Government backed down on plans to mine in the countrysmost precious wilderness areas. Birdlife Internationals New Zealand partner, Forest & Bird, seized the initiative inMarch by publicising the details of the Governments plans ahead of their official release.

Some of the nearly 50,000 marchers in the anti-mining rally,

Auckland, New Zealand

News of the Governments plans to allow mining in7000 hectares of top quality conservation landprotected under Schedule 4 of the Crown Minerals Actin Paparoa National Park in the northwest of the SouthIsland, and Coromandel Peninsula and Great BarrierIsland in the northeast of the North Island nearAuckland, led to an outpouring of public opposition.The area targeted for mining on Great Barrier Islandwas home to several plants found only on the island,New Zealands longest lizard, the rare Chevron skink,and rare birds including the countrys most endangeredduck, the brown teal.

Two areas that would have been opened to mining inthe Coromandel Peninsula contained rare frogs, nativefish and many native bird species, while the Paparoaregion has forest areas with rich bird life.Forest & Bird took a leading role in organising a

campaign againstthe plans announced by Energy andResources Minister Gerry Brownlee and a major turningpoint came when up to 50,000 people marched inopposition in Auckland at the start of May.

Thousands more took to the streets in other centres and almost 40,000 people made submissions to the Governmenton the proposals. Forest & Bird argued that as well as destroying the intrinsic values of the wild landscapes, mining didnot stack up economically, threatening the clean green image which underpins New Zealands tourism industry andagricultural exports.

On July 20, the government bowed to the outpouring of opposition, announcing there would be no mining on landprotected under Schedule 4, which makes up 13 percent of New Zealands land area and 40 percent of all land setaside for conservation. But on the downside, Mr Brownlee bizarrely claimed the public consultation had resulted in aclear mandate for the minerals sector to mine the remaining 60 percent of conservation land. He announced plans for

aerial surveys of conservation land in Northland in the North Island and the West Coast of the South Island to checkfor mineral prospects, as well as making it easier for miners to get access to conservation areas.

Forest and Bird is expecting more battles in the future to protect important wilderness areas from being carved up bymines. For more details, contact David Brooks, [email protected]

IBAS on the map for the Pacific

One of the principal objectives for BirdLife Pacific overthe last few years has been to research and publishdetails of Important Bird Areas (IBAs) across the region.Between 2005 and 2010, IBA directories were publishedfor Fiji, French Polynesia, New Caledonia, Palau, Australiaand Samoa. More recently a desk review, to assesspotential IBAs in countries and territories where BirdLifehas no current partners, has been completed and the

findings assessed.

All the resulting potential IBAs have been recorded ontothe World Bird Database which acts as a centralrepository for this kind of information. However, in orderto make these proposed and confirmed IBAs more widelyavailable, the BirdLife Pacific Secretariat has produced aCD entitled Important Bird Areas in the Pacific 2010: acompendium copies of which have been deposited withSecretariat of the Pacific Regional EnvironmentProgramme (www.sprep.org) for wider distribution.

Pacific region IBAs with candidate marine areas


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Pacific IBA compendium continued

This CD records 187 Important Bird Areas in the Pacific Islands region, to add to the 314 already identified by BirdsAustralia.One of the developments presented on this CD is the concept of Marine IBAs, based on foraging rangesaround priority seabird nesting areas.

Feedback on the usefulness of this approach would be particularly beneficial. It should be stressed that this CD should

only be considered as an interim report (hence the year in the title). There are still a number of countries andterritories where IBAs have not yet been identified (Cook Islands currently in prep, American Samoa, US MinorOutlying Islands, Tokelau, Papua New Guinea) and a number of countries where IBA identification is currently littlemore than rudimentary (Solomon Islands, Vanuatu, New Zealand). We hope that opportunities will allow IBAprogrammes to be undertaken in each of these countries over the next few years. Contact Mark OBrien for moreinformation on this story, [email protected]. Mark works as Senior Technical Advisor for the BirdLife PacificSecretariat.

Important Bird Areas in Samoa

Samoa has become the latest country in the region to complete a programme of work to identify Important Bird Areas.Six sites have been confirmed, five on Upolu and a sixth on Savaii which is three times the area of the five Upolu sitescombined. The assessment was conducted through a partnership between O le Sio'sio'maga Society (OLSSI, BirdLife inSamoa), Conservation International, the Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment, BirdLife International andCedric Schuster of Pacific Environment Consultants Ltd who compiled the final inventory, supported by the OLSSIsteering committee. The IBAs support Samoa's most vulnerable species, such as Tooth-billed Pigeon, Mao, SamoanWhite-eye and the possibly extinct Samoan Moorhen. The sites overlap to a large extent with Conservation

International's Key Biodiversity Areas (see www.sprep.org/att/IRC/eCOPIES/Countries/Samoa/191.pdf). For the IBAprogrammes, the next steps are to raise community awareness about the importance of the sites, to identify benefitsto the community from the sites and to monitor the sites to identify both short-term and medium-term threats. Formore information contact Fiu Elisara Mataese, [email protected] or Mark OBrien, [email protected]

Habitats

Invasive plants combatted in Vatthe Conservation Area, Vanuatu

Landowners in the Vatthe Conservation Area in Vanuatu havebeen working with staff and volunteers from Forest & Bird,(BirdLife in New Zealand) to find a way to control the invasivevine, Merremia peltata, and to protect one of the largestremaining lowland tropical forests in the South Pacific. Thevine smothers and causes collapse of the forest. Last year, thegroup trialed four different herbicides by injecting them into

the vines. The vines can trail up to one kilometre, so uptake ofthe herbicides through the plant's system is vital for thesuccess of this approach. The trial involved tracking theoutcomes for treated vines, requiring the team to crawl aroundhundreds of metres of forest floor to find out which parts ofthe vines were affected. The most effective method was toinject the main stem of the vine with the herbicide

Weedmaster which has glysophate as the active ingredient.This method killed the main stem and all ground runners onthe vines trialled.

The work has grown into an international collaboration, withVanuatu NGO Enviro Livelihoods Association working withForest & Bird teams which have visited regularly, and assisted

Bill Tavue tests the herbicide injection technique on

Merremia vines at Vatthe Conservation Area, Vanuatu

by funding from the UN Development Fund and Global Environment Facility. Funds from the Quaker Peace and ServiceCommittee Aotearoa New Zealand and the Pacific Conservation Development Trust have also assisted, along with inputfrom tour groups organised by Forest & Bird who have contributed to the work on the ground as well as through funding

parts of the trials and their implementation. Training in the successful herbicide application will be ongoing at Vatthe.Contact Sue Maturin [email protected] .


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People

Training & Capacity Building by Fiji Programme

The BirdLife Fiji Programme was initiated in 2002 inresponse to pressing threats to biodiversity and inthe absence of a Fijian conservation NGO eligible forBirdLife membership. Today it has come a long wayfrom community consultations to biological surveysand it is now paving the way for fellow local andregional conservationists who are seeking to developSite Support Groups and to establish community-managed protected areas.

Development and implementation of feasible andsustainable livelihoods is the focus for theprogramme. This helps communities to protect theirforests, and provides an alternative to logging. Localcommunities can monitor and manage their naturalresources more sustainably. In partnership withprominent Government Departments and withfunding from the Critical Ecosystem PartnershipFund, the Fiji Programme has been providing training

asked for by the communities in livelihood projects.SSG representatives at the SSG workshops in Fiji in July 2010

Projects include sustainable agriculture and cash-crop farming, handicrafts, bakery & pastry making, beekeeping and start your business training. Communities surrounding the IBAs depend on forest resources to sustain theirlivelihoods; the projects are aimed at alleviating pressure on the forest resources. The Programme has providedfurther training to the SSGs for effective monitoring of these IBAs. In July this year, the first joint workshop for SSGswas led by staff from the Fij i Programme for groups from five sites with extremely positive results.

The workshop included a fundraising and biosecurity training, followed by a 1-day field excursion to a seabirdrestoration site. Community-declared arotected areas are established covering 40% of two terrestrial IBAs, and twoor more are planned for seabird islands. This programme is vital for engaging communities and provides a modelapproach for all conservation work in Fiji and across the region. Contact Miliana Ravuso, [email protected]

PCS celebrates the International Day for Biological Diversity

Rusty Kingfishers. Photo Mandy Etpison and PCS

Terrestrial biodiversity is the one thing that we interact with every

day. When you reach out and touch your neighbour, youve justtouched terrestrial biodiversity. Terrestrial biodiversity is part of oureveryday lives, says Ms. Anu Gupta, Director of Conservation andProtected Areas for the Palau Conservation Society (BirdLife in Palau).Palau has celebrated the International Year of Biodiversity with aspecial event on 21 May for dignitaries and community leaders. Guestsincluded Palaus President and Vice President, and representativesfrom the Council of Chiefs, National Congress, Ministries, andGovernors Association.

Palau hosts more species, subspecies, and habitats than might beexpected for an island of its size, and is uniquely positioned in thePacific close enough to land masses to encourage colonization butyet far enough away to encourage speciation.

Palauans have close bonds with nature, have strong respect for biodiversity, and work actively conserving it andprotecting it from harm.

The strong community-linked conservation activities from Palau include work at Lake Ngardok, part of Palaus largestIBA where community members and researchers alike have noticed that the kiuidor Micronesian Starling is likely theonly bird to spread the seed of the orredakl, Dracaena multiflora. Orredaklis one of the only native trees able to growon bare and degraded areas. This tree is seminal to the regeneration of new forested areas, leading to healthier reefs,more fish, and cleaner drinking water, noted Anu Gupta in her presentation on the examples of IBA and communityengagement. For the Micronesian Pigeon, highly valued in cultural practices, community involvement in theconservation of the species is vital to reverse the 40% decline of the species, and hunting needs to be reduced toimprove the conservation status of this species. Palauans are already using biodiversity as indicators of environmentalwellbeing, and for example, the Palau Fruit Dove (an endemic species) has been used as an indicator in developmentdecisions. Contact [email protected] for more information.


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NEWS FROM THE BIRDLIFE PACIFIC SECRETARIAT

BirdLife Assistant-Director of Network and Capacity Development Visits Region

Dr Hazell Shokellu Thompson, BirdLife Internationals recently-appointed Assistant Director of Network and CapacityDevelopment, paid a short, introductory visit to the region during late June and early July. In Wellington, Hazellattended the Annual General Meeting of the Royal Forest and Bird Protection Society (BirdLife in New Zealand) and

gave a well-received presentation to members on how BirdLife works globally with an emphasis on the IBA process. Hehad discussions with Forest and Bird Executives and General Manager on Partner collaboration and how bothorganisations might work together more effectively on international issues including fundraising, network support,communications, membership recruitment and retention, governance, database management, sharing technologiesand advocacy at political and local levels. In Suva, Hazell met with the Director and staff of the BirdLife PacificPartnership Secretariat and BirdLifes Fiji Programme as well as with staff of NatureFiji/MareqetiViti, a localconservation NGO, to discuss an eventual merger with BirdLifes Fiji Programme with NatureFiji/MareqetiViti becomingBirdLife Affiliate for Fiji.

Dr Thompson was Director of BirdLifes Africa Division before his current appointment and is a former vice president ofthe Conservation Society of Sierra Leone. He is now based at BirdLife Internationals headquarters in Cambridge, UK.This was his first visit to this part of the world. Contact Don Stewart [email protected].

Hazell Thompson gives a presentation to the combined staff of BirdLIfe Pacific Secretariat and Nature Fiji/Mareketi Viti during

his visit to the BirdLife Office in Fiji during July.

BirdLife and SPREP

Regional Director Don Stewart was in Apia in Julyaccompanied by Seabird Programme Manager Steve Cranwelland Senior Technical Advisor Mark OBrien to discuss ongoingcooperation between BirdLife and Secretariat for the PacificRegional Environment Programme (SPREP). He agreed withSPREP Director David Sheppard that SPREP and BirdLifewould continue working together on promoting the ImportantBird Area (IBA) process in the region developing a revisedRegional Bird Conservation Strategy and sharing informationon dealing with invasive alien species mainly rats whosedepredations are a main factor in the endangering of manybird populations in the region.

During a function hosted by the Director of SPREP forparticipants at the 13th Pacific Roundtable for NatureConservation, Don Stewart presented the compendium ofIBAs that BirdLife Pacific had researched covering 21 Pacificcountries and territories in the Pacific.

David Sheppard (SPREP Director) accepts the IBAcompendium CD from Don Stewart (BirdLife Regional

Director) at the recent SPREP round table meeting.

Further information is available athttp://tinyurl.com/23vpxpk

During the 13th Roundtable meeting, at which Don Stewart and Mark OBrien represented the Secretariat, it wasagreed that the Birds Working Group would be merged with the Threatened Species Group and would focus in the next12 months on assisting with the development of the revised Regional Bird Conservation Strategy for SPREP. Furtherinformation on the meeting is available fromMark at [email protected]


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BirdLife and SPREP continued

Steve Cranwell represented the Secretariat at the Pacific Invasives Programmes annual meeting which was held inApia at the same time as the Roundtable. The programmes meeting agreed that BirdLife over the next 12 monthswould carry out a regional ecological restoration prioritization exercise for islands in the Pacific based on biodiversityvalue, feasibility, and capacity needs. Further information on this can be obtained from Steve at

[email protected]

Departure of Maaike Manten

About 40 people attended a function at the BirdLife office in Suva on 23July to farewell Regional Programme Development Manager MaaikeManten who left us after 2 years to return to Europe and then backto Africa. Maaike came to us in early 2008 from Nairobi where she hadbeen the fundraiser for BirdLifes Africa Division. Maaike ably fulfilled akey role in fundraising for Pacific Partners. She developed the PacificRegional Fundraising Strategy, now being implemented, and co-authored a highly popular fundraising handbook. Maaike's talents didnot stop with raising funds: she compiled and edited the first edition ofthis e-bulletin, revised our website, produced a communications planand chaired the Secretariats communications committee, wrote a

network development plan, a policy and advocacy plan and institutedour web-based conservation volunteers systemhttp://tinyurl.com/2bjqkm6 . Maaike achieved all this while producingand editing publication of articles in various national regional and globalmedia. We wish Maaike well in her new endeavours. Maaike Manten (centre) heads back to Africa

after 2 years at BirdLifes Pacific Secretariat

office.

Farewell to the SCO Director, Vivien Chartendrault

Vivien Chartendrault

Vivien Chatendrault is leaving the Socit Caldonien dOrnithologie in NewCaledonia later this year. Looking back over his time in the post he says:"This is seven years of my life that are now coming to an end and leavingNew Caledonia and the Pacific will not be so simple. I've had the chance tomeet great people experience conservation in one of the most amazing

hotspots of biodiversity in the world. Leaving the BirdLife Partnership will alsobe tough as I consider it as one of the best examples of initiatives forconservation and I'd be pleased to be part of it again soon wherever in theworld!

Vivien added that in New Caledonia, these past seven years have beensome of the most critical for bird conservation, with the increased knowledgeon bird status and distribution, the identification of IBAs, new major projectsincluding seabird colony restoration (through the Packard Foundationfunding) and the Kagu recovery plan.

But it's also been years during which SCO has worked in partnership and gained recognition among environment andconservation stakeholders leading to a better incorporation of bird matters into local policies which is a major progress! It is now time to ensure the sustainability of our NGO. SCO has grown from one staff member in 2007 to 6 in 2010but we must not forget that we have a small constituency of people who want to volunteer for bird conservation! NewCaledonian birds need more and more attention and SCO will do its best to raise their profile among all of our people.

Viviens lively input is going to be sorely missed in the region, but his parting comment Au revoir tous et trsbientt! suggests that there is more to come. Contact Vivien at [email protected].

OTHER NEWS

STOP PRESS!!!As this e-bulletin was being finalised for circulation, advice was received from Brussels that our bid for a new EU-funded regional project, involving all five of our island Partners plus NatureFiji/MareqetiViti, has been provisionallyaccepted by the European Union. More details in the next e-bulletin.


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Mike Britton, BirdLife Global Councillor

BirdLife in the Pacific

The BirdLife International Pacific Partner

Australia), Cook Islands (Te Ipukarea Socie(Socit Caldonienne dOrnithologie), NeConservation Society) and Samoa (O leconservation Programme in Fiji pending thethe country. The Partnership is supportedprogrammatic and fundraising support to twork in the Pacific, see www.birdlife.org/re

Nicola Vallance, Conservation AdvocaNic Vallance is an enthusiastic supconservation programme. She said: Imand Bird, after seven years workingConservation in New Zealand. My bac

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FUNDING OPPORTUNITIES

Who: Mohamed bin Zayed Species Conservation FundWhen: No deadlineWhat: Species conservation (focusing on Critically

Endangered species in 2010)How much: Two grant sizes: max USD 5,000 / max USD 25,000

Eligible countries: AllMore information: www.mbzspeciesconservation.org

Who: National Geographic Conservation TrustWhen: No deadlineWhat: Preservation and sustainable use of the Earth's

biological, cultural, and historical resourcesHow much: Max USD 20,000Eligible countries: AllMore information: www.nationalgeographic.com/conservation/

grant_application.html

Who: LifeWebWhen: No deadlineWhat: Marketplace for projects and donors that aim to

conserve biodiversity through implementation of theCBD Programme of Work on Protected Areas

How much: AnythingEligible countries: Developing countries and countries with economies

in transition that are parties to the CBDMore information: www.cbd.int/lifeweb/

NEW RESOURCES

Regional IBA compendium on CDThe BirdLife International Pacific Partnership has completed a prgramme of work that describes Important Bird Areasacross the region. In addition to the IBA reports published for Fiji, New Caledonia and Palau, and work done in FrenchPolynesia and most recently in Samoa (see above in this bulletin), a desk review has been undertaken to assesspotential IBAs in Countries/Territories where BirdLife has no current Partners NGOs. All the resulting potential IBAs

have been recorded onto the BirdLife World Bird Database www.birdlife.org/datazone. To make these potential andactual IBAs more widely available, BirdLife also produced a CD entitled Important Bird Areas in the Pacific 2010: acompendium. This CD records 187 Important Bird Areas in the region, to add to the 314 already identified by BirdsAustralia (not included in this directory). One of the developments presented on this CD is the concept of Marine IBAs,based on foraging ranges around priority seabird nesting areas. Please contact [email protected] for a copy.Feedback on the usefulness of this approach would be particularly beneficial. It should be stressed that this CD shouldonly be considered as an interim report (hence the year in the title). There are a number of countries where IBAs havenot yet been identified and a number of countries where IBA identification is currently still rudimentary.

WebsitesWith the help of the worlds best filmmakers, photographers, conservationists and scientists,ARKive is creating the ultimate multimedia guide to the world's endangered species atwww.arkive.org. For 2010, the International Year of Biodiversity, ARKive has set itself thetask of tracking down imagery for 17,000 of the worlds most endangered species. Please check out the website to seehow you can contribute (and benefit!) from this amazing initiative.

Volunteers

In case you need a volunteer, or are a volunteer, check out the BirdLife International Pacific Partnership VolunteerProgramme and Marketplace that aims to link enthusiastic and able volunteers to the BirdLife Partners and theirwork in the Pacific region: http://tinyurl.com/2bjqkm6 or send an email to [email protected]

CONTRIBUTION OF ARTICLESWe welcome contributions to this e-bulletin from the BirdLife Pacific Partners about activities and events in the fields ofspecies, site and habitat conservation. We are also very interested in your work with people. Please send yourcontributions to [email protected].

UPCOMING EVENTS

What?1st World Seabird ConferenceWhen?7-11 SeptemberWhere?

Victoria, CanadaSee:www.worldseabirdconference.com/main.cfm?cid=1813Contact:[email protected]

What?World Bird Festival - a globalcelebration of birds

When?

2-3 OctoberWhere?All around the world

See:www.birdlife.org/action/awareness/world

_bird_festival/index.htmlContact:[email protected]

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