Environmental Crimes and its Impact to the Indigenous populations – Cases of Fiji, PNG and Vanuatu
A Talk by Tevita Naikasowalu , Eugene Mondu , Marik Waoute Patrick and Natasha Khan
About this Talk
This session will be a discussion between indigenous environmental human rights defenders from three Pacific Islands countries (Fiji, PNG and Vanuatu) and focus on the challenges in combating environmental crimes from the community perspective. Each of the speakers will focus on a different aspect of environmental crimes; black sand off-shore mining in Fiji; illegal logging in PNG and overfishing and implementation of communal bans on fishing as a means to regenerate their lagoon in Vanuatu.