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Pacific Islands FORESTS & TREES M2te) Pacific Islands FORESTS & TREES m2TE) Incorporating SPRIG, ACIAR Pacific Forestry Update & PNG-ACIAR Forest Domestication Project AusAID No. 2/02 ISSN 1605-5462 UPDATES FROM THE COUNTRIES: of Ethnobotanical Information com- INSIDE menced operation in November 2001. PANDANUS CONSERVATION PROJECT IN KIRIBATI The specific objectives and outputs of Pages the Project include; 2 Continuation of Country To establish field genebanks and Updates : to propagate planting materials to Kiribati; Tonga; Samoa; assist food security and exchange Tuvalu; Wallis & Futuna important species with other and Solomon Is countries in the future 6 Other Regional News - To provide Pandanus-planting An Extract from materials to generate nutritious Overstory # 103 and Vitamin -rich foods to overcome various nutrition - 8 SPRIG News - Phase 2 related illness (such as Vitamin A deficiency, anaemia, diabetes, 12 ACIAR Pacific Forestry high blood pressure and obesity). Update Pandanus or screw pine (Pandanus To protect and propagate tectorius) is a very important part !- of cultivars of economic, cultural 14 PNG-ACIAR Forest Kiribati life and culture. Pandanus and ecological importance for Domestication Project grows wild in all the islands of Kiribati medicinal purposes in an effort to and due to many uses including food, increase self-reliance in Kiribati. 16 Technical Assistance to materials and handi- medicine, building To conserve important Pandanus Samoa crafts etc, life would be more difficult cultivars for future generations without it in Kiribati. The Kiribati Ministry of Natural Re- sources Development assessment of the QUOTE standing (natural) stock indicates the Pandanus resource is now endangered and threatened with extinction (due to increased human population pressure). "A sense of duty is useful in In this respect, it was imperative that work, but offensive in personal measures for conservation and replen- relations. People wish to be ishment is developed and implemented. liked, not to be endured with patient resignation." With the generous financial support (USD 11,000) from SPC and FAO, the Project titled Pandanus Varietal Col- Bertrand Russell lection, Conservation and Recording June 2002 Pacific Islands Forests & Trees PROJECT NEWS following membership; To facilitate the implementation of the TONGA Project, technical training and support Director of Agriculture and Forestry - were provided by Professor Randy NATIONAL AGRO-FORESTRY Chairman Thaman of the University of the South TRAINING WORKSHOP Head of Forestry Division - Pacific, Dr Lex Thompson, Project Team Secretary Leader of the SPRIG Project and Mr. The Forestry Division of the Ministry Chief Executive Extension Unit - Kanawi Pouru of the SPC Forests & of Agriculture and Forestry, in Tonga Member Trees Programme. The Project is being conducted a national training workshop Chief Executive Research Unit - managed by Ms TearimawaNatake and on agro-forestry in September 2001 with Member assisted by Ms Kinaai Kairo of the Ag- the support and assistance of the Sec- Agro-forestry Specialist - riculture Division of the Ministry of retariat of the Pacific Community's For- Member Natural Resources Development. ests and Trees Programme based in Director of FSP Tonga Trust - Suva, Fiji. The workshop was held at Member Since commencing the Project, field col- the national Agriculture Research Sta- Chief Executive Information Unit - lection and recording of pandanus in- tion at Vaini, on Tongatapu Island. Member formation has covered seven village Department of Environment - communities on the island of Butaritari The training workshop was officiated Member where men and women were interviewed by Mr. Haniteli Fa'anunu, the Director on names and used of the various vari of the Ministry of Agriculture and For- iv. That the revised National eties of pandanus. Similar interviews estry. The principle resource persons Agro-forestry Masterplan and information gathering is being were from the Ministry of Agriculture (1997) and the Rolling Plan are planned for the islands Marakei, and Forestry and FSP Tonga Trust. submitted to Government Abemama and Tamana. (Cabinet) for approval; A total of 30 participants attended the v. That Vava'u MAF supply A field gene bank has been established national workshop and they were mainly compost materials to Niva at Bikenibeu, and 27 cultivars of 11 vari- forestry and agriculture extension offic- Toputapu and Nivafo'ou for eties of pandanus have been planted ers from the main and outer islands of nursery operations. and are growing. Tongatapu, Eua, Ha'apai, Vava'u, Niva vi. That the vacant agroforestry Toputapu and Nivafo'ou. positions in Tongatapu, Eua, Ha'apai, Niva Toputapu and The principle objectives of the work- Nivafo'ou are filled so that the shop were: Extension Units can provide to promote and develop strategies (on -going) training in for tree planting, agro-forestry prac- agroforestry assistance to tices and conservation; communities. to review and revise the existing vii. That the PRAP coordinated national agro-forestry master plan Agroforestry Information Kit to ensure it is still applicable and is translated into the Tongan responsive to present needs and language and is modified to situations; suit the local situations; to formulate a National Plan of Ac- That agroforestry is tion for agro-forestry in Tonga. recognised and included as an integral part of MAF major re- Some of the main outcomes and recom- search programmes; Cultivar at Bikenibeu Field Genebank mendations of the workshop included; IX. That a follow-up national agroforestry training work- i. The revision of the 1997 na- shop is conducted in Vava'u Submitted By: tional agro-forestry master in the next fiscal year 2002-03; plan for Tonga; x That a budget is provided in Tearimawa Natake and Kinaai Kairo The formulation of a national the 2002-2003 fiscal year to Project Officers action plan for agro-forestry implement the national Division of. Agriculture iii. The establishment of an agroforestry master -plan and Agro-forestry Steering related national activities; Committee which include the 2 Pacific Islands Iforest!; & laccs June 2002 Project News is customary owned, it became neces- planted to recover the vegetation. sary to conduct a community education and awareness for the surrounding vil- Representatives from the Samoa Water lages. Authority, the Electric Power Corpora- tion and the Fisheries Division were also A 2 day workshop with the purpose invited and presented at the workshop. of educating and providing relevant in- A total of th irty participants from seven formation and types of actions to be villages (Falevao, Lalomauga, Manunu, taken for the protection, conservation Sauniatu, Falefa, Lufilufi, Faleapuna, and management of the watershed area Forestry Integrated Nursery (Tongatapu) and Saluafata) attended the 2day work- to the "pulen' u and the high chiefs" was shop. organised by the Division of Forests with support from the SPC Forests and Some of the workshop outcomes and Trees Programme in Suva, Fiji. recommendations included; The focus of the workshop was to similar workshops should be con- raise the understanding of the commu- ducted for the different groups in nity and especially the "Chiefs" on the the communities so that the impor- importance of maintaining and healthy tance of the watershed and its main- watershed area and consequential out- tenance is further understood and comes. This would assist the Chiefs Kauri integrated with Coconut, Pandanus appreciated for preservation; and community leaders in facilitating the and other Trees Species (Tongatapu) landowners recognise and support decisions regarding the management of community based forest activities the watershed. Submitted By: and requested replanting of open land areas. They were willing to be The workshop was opened by Taniela Hoponoa involved in community oriented Afamasaga Sami Lemalu, the Assistant Of activities that would promote and Director of Forests and covered vari- Division of Forestry safeguard the Falefa watershed ous topics including; management area. SAMOA Natural Calamities - destruction caused by cyclones, strong FALEFAWATERSHEDCOMMUNITY winds, fires, tlood or earthquakes. EDUCATION AND AWARENESS Human Activities- WORKSHOP-SAMOA destruction caused by forest clearance for livestock, subsistence, fuelwood, The Falefa watershed area is one of settlement and use of chemical and the five defined watershed areas in Sa- weedicides. moa. This watershed area is located on Water quality and flow the northeastern region of the Island on Upolu. The area was identified during Soil and vegetation retention and an evaluation survey funded by FAO/ Rehabilitation and stabilising UNDP in 1983. options for river banks, slopes, roads etc. Falefa Watershed Management Area The Division of Forestry is presently (Upolu) managing the Falefa watershed manage- A field tour of the watershed area was ment area and water from there is being also organised to show participants fea- channeled to supply a hydro power tures of importance and demonstration Submitted By: plant and the surrounding villages. One plots and tree planting areas at Magiagi of the main problems being faced is silt- village, the stabilisation of river banks Maturo Paniani ation, which affects the flow and qual- and slopes at Alaoa, an agroforestry Senior Watershed Management ity of water. Siltation is resulting from plot (contour plantings) at Malololelei Officer human activities within the watershed and the Afiamalu Water Intake site Division of
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