Presentation programme

(two days)

Lesser frigatebirds, Kiribati. Photo: Hiroyuki Tanoi

The presentation programme will be structured around the following topics:

1. Status of and known and emerging threats to Oceania’s seabirds, including potential for finding lost and discovering species.
2. The value of seabirds including economic and cultural values (including traditional knowledge).
3. The health of our Ocean, what seabirds can tell us. Tracking seabirds; diet studies (what the birds are eating and what their prey are eating); seabird use of marine space to inform marine conservation and identification of MPA.
4. Keeping Oceania’s seabirds afloat. Seabird recovery in a changing world, habitat loss, sea level rise, and including island restoration and invasive alien species.
5. Addressing seabird bycatch in fisheries across the Pacific.
6. Seabird communication/public awareness tackling the invisibility of seabirds; how to get people interested and motivated about seabirds; working with communities around the value of seabirds; and increasing capacity for monitoring and managing seabird populations at community and national levels.

Tarakoi habitat restoration, Rapa, French Polynesia. Photo: SOP Manu

Simultaneous translation – English to French – will be provided for all presentations.

The Symposium Steering Group has invited expressions of interest in participating and is asking respondents what they would like to get from the event, and what they would like to share. These responses are helping us shape the presentation programme.