The project aims to preserve ecosystem services, sustain livelihoods and improve resilience in Tuval
This page will provide more information about the Ridge to Reef Project in Tuvalu. The Tuvalu GEF 5 STAR R2R project’s objective is “to preserve ecosystem services, sustain livelihoods and improve resilience in Tuvalu using a ‘ridge-to-reef’ approach”. The project will enhance the R2R approach nationally, while specific outputs (2.1.2, 2.1.3, 2.1.4 and 3.2.2) will focus on one of, or all 3 islands
04/10/2023
digitalpasifik live - Tuvalu National Library & Archives We hosted Noa Petueli Tapumanaia, the Chief Librarian and Archivist at the Tuvalu National Library and Archive and his staff, along with Mr Siaosi Finiki who shared some stories and memories of life on Tuvalu.
23/10/2020
The Department of Trade would like to put up these three logos for the public to vote on the best logo that best describes what the department is doing. In order for you to vote for your best option, please check the explanations for the three logos provided below.
Option 1: Fish and Coconut Tree represent the main products that we used to trade from these two resources. The canoe represents local trade and the plane represent international trading.
Option 2: Green colour in the circle represent Agriculture and Sustainability. Blue colour represents the Blue Economy, Fisheries Sector, etc. Tapola or local basket represent Trade. Human Shape represents Human, Assets, Tourism and Labour Mobility and stars represents the nine island of Tuvalu.
Option 3: Same as Option 2 but without stars.
To vote, just comment below by typing your option number.
Fafetai Lasi
07/10/2019
11/09/2019
Engaging our youth in environment conservation.
“The importance of having students and the community involved and participating in any awareness activity is to build their knowledge and capacity about preserving ecosystems services and biodiversity. It’s a great opportunity to train everyone to be role models for each island in Tuvalu on environmental stewardship and conservation management,” Mr. Feagaiga Penivao, LMMA Officer, Tuvalu Ridge to Reef Project.
Engaging our youth in environment conservation By the Tuvalu Ridge to Reef Project
01/08/2019
Congratulations to Tuvalu R2R team members, Feagaiga Penivao (LMMA Officer) and Lamese Saamu (Environment Data Specialist) for their successful completion of the Graduate Certificate in Ridge to Reef Sustainable Development from James Cook University.
At a graduation ceremony at the meeting in Nadi, Fiji, this week, they were among over 30 Pacific Island environmental practitioners and government officials to receive their certificates of attendance ahead of a formal graduation in Australia next year.
Also part of the ceremony were former project manager for the Tuvalu R2R project, Mataio Tekinene and IW R2R project coordinator, Pesega Samuelu.
07/07/2019
For this year, the Department of Environment organised an event during a national week-long program to highlight the importance of traditional food.
The aim was to encourage the practice of how traditional Tuvaluan food is prepared and the health benefits it brings compared to the reliance on imported canned food.
Keeping the tradition alive - UNDP Pacific Resilience & Sustainable Development - Medium On the menu was a range of traditional dishes made from local ingredients, cooked by women from communities in Tuvalu’s capital, Funafuti…
23/06/2019
Tuvalu Ridge to Reef Project organised competition to encourage people to grow more plants, vegetables etc.
Competition held in Funafuti, Nanumea and Nukufetau.
PC: Tuvalu R2R Project
17/06/2019
Environment Week in provided the R2R project team with an opportunity to share about the work they do with the planting of vetiver grass at coastal sites on Funafuti.
A group of students from Loyola University Chicago working with members of the National Youth Council visited the team at a new site at Nanumasa where an Environment Week activity was organised by the R2R project team.
They interviewed the project's LMMA officer, Feagaiga Penivao and students who were present to plant the vetiver grass at the new site.
Nanumasa is the third site where vetiver has been planted in Funafuti. The other two sites are the dumpsite and Tafua pond.
PC: Tuvalu R2R Project
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Adrianna Ennelinda Pedro, Form 1 student at SDA Primary School, won 3rd prize in the primary school poetry competition, organized as part of Environment Day activities last week.
The Ozone Depleting Substances Project under the Department of Environment organised this year’s poetry competition.
Anishia Katoa, a Form 2 student at SDA Primary School, won first prize in a poetry competition organized for schools as part of week activities in .
The theme was Air Pollution.
The poetry competition was organized by the Ozone Depleting Substances Project under the Department of Environment.
In , week celebrations included a poetry competition among school students organized by the Ozone Depleting Substances Project under the Department of Environment.
Kahifa Manatu is a Form 3 student at Fetuvalu High School. He was a 3rd-joint winner for the secondary school category and presented his poem at the launch of environment week celebrations in Funafuti on Monday.
The theme was Air Pollution.
This page will provide more information about the Ridge to Reef Project in Tuvalu. The Tuvalu GEF 5 STAR R2R project’s objective is “to preserve ecosystem services, sustain livelihoods and improve resilience in Tuvalu using a ‘ridge-to-reef’ approach”. The project will enhance the R2R approach nationally, while specific outputs (2.1.2, 2.1.3, 2.1.4 and 3.2.2) will focus on one of, or all 3 islands of Funafuti, Nukufetau and Nanumea. This project will focus on the conservation of the natural environment and the maintenance, and where needed the rehabilitation, of ecosystems for the benefit of the people of Tuvalu. This shall be addressed through supporting the strengthening and development of a Tuvaluan system of marine conservation areas, similar to the Locally Managed Marine Areas (LMMAs) to effectively conserve about 15% of its coastline by the end of the project in 2018. It will seek to harmonize LMMA principles within Tuvalu’s Policy and Legislation, develop Action Plans and implement selected priorities of these Plans across the nine islands. It shall implement activities that will link with Integrated Land and Water Management in assessing resource status, re-vegetating damaged island and coastal ‘forests’, improving or developing LMMAs governed by the Kaupule (Island Councils) to assist the recovery of degraded coral reefs and for protecting breeding fish populations, optimizing water use and addressing coastal pollution including algal blooms.