Oceania

Intro

Yvette

Fotuitaua Yvette Kerslake, Principal Watershed Officer, MNRE, Samoa

“Samoa is blessed with fertile soils and abundant nature”, says Yvette, “but freshwater resources are getting scarce”.

Jesoni

Jesoni Kuruyawa, Senior Assistant, Kadavu Project, Fiji

Jesoni Kuruyawa is a native Kadavu islander. Kadavu is a 411 km2 island, the fourth largest of the isalnds in the Fiji group. Its main centre is Vunisea, 88 kilometers south of Suva, Fiji's capital. The population of Kadavu is estimated at about 10,167 people and governed as one of Fiji's fourteen provinces. It also belongs to the Burebasaga Confederacy.

Kadavu

Leigh-Anne Buliruarua, Kadavu Project Assistant Manager, Fiji

 “Through working for the Institute of Applied Sciences,  USP and IUCN’s Water and Nature Initiative on the Kadavu Project, I have been fortunate to be part of a team in protecting and restoring my country’s water resources,” says Leigh-Anne.

Peteli Pese

Peteli Pese, Park Ranger at Samoa’s Togitogiga National Park

Peteli Pese is the park ranger for the Togitogiga National Park, located as a part of the scenic Le Pupu-Pue Park, on the Pacific island nation of Samoa.