PACIFIC: Call to link conservation to culture

Updated October 26, 2007 14:10:47

There have been calls for conservation efforts in the Pacific to be linked more closely to people, their culture and their traditional knowledge. The Executive Director of the Foundation of the People's of the South Pacific International, Rex Horoi, has told the the eighth Pacific Islands Conference on Nature Conservation and Protected Areas in Papua New Guinea, that for conservation projects to be successful they need to take account of the economic and social factors as well as environmental ones.

Presenter: Jemima Garrett
Speakers: Rex Horoi, Executive Director, Foundation of the Peoples of the South Pacific International