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PASIFIKA
Currently, Pasifika faces massive threats from industrial
logging, mining, and fishing; and the dominance of globalized
monoculture endangers Indigenous ways. Collaborations
with Pasifika guardians grew from the aspirations of Solomon Islands
communities to protect their forested high places and aim for
whole-domain Indigenous management of the ocean. Led by a diverse
Pasifika-based team, the program strategy in 2022 weaved together
three pillars: Islands, Ocean, and Identity. We’re working alongside
Pasifika Peoples to strengthen guardianship of sacred Island homelands—Sky
Islands and Atolls—to sustain the bountiful ocean, at scale; and to elevate
a collective, diverse, reciprocity-based regional identity to amplify and
secure a self-determined vision for a thriving Pasifika.
PARTNER SPOTLIGHT
Nia Tero is unique in thinking about Ocean
Guardianship based on customary or Indigenous
ways and values. This has provided a unique space for us
to move forward with the Manus LLG Marine Conservation Law
and the Morobe People’s attempts to stop DSTP (Deep Sea Tailings
Placement) by Wafi Golpu mine. We are attempting to stop
massive destruction of the ocean homelands and livelihoods
of the Indigenous Peoples along the Morobe coast–this is
incredibly important!
~ PETER BOSIP
Executive Director, CELCOR
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