GEF6: Ensuring Resilience Ecosystems & Representative Protected Areas (EREPA) in the Solomon Islands

Rolling out the implementation of the Ensuring Resilience and Representative of Protected Areas in (EREPA) the Solomon Islands GEF 6 project. The project will support improved management of land and natural resources in the country through the expansion of terrestrial protected area coverage and participatory land-use planning with local communities. The project interventions undertaken at the national, provincial and local levels will enable to reduce the use of unsustainable logging, mining and agricultural practices in the country that leads to the rapid decrease of biodiversity and ecosystem heath. These interventions will have important benefits for biodiversity conservation, ecosystem functioning and carbon sequestration. The project will contribute to protect against further loss of biodiversity within a recognized global biodiversity hotspot (East Melanesia Islands) which holds national, regional and global importance.