The Coastal Awareness Programme conducted by the Biosecurity Authority of Fiji (BAF) in collaboration with the Fiji Revenue Customs Services (FRCS), the Invasive Alien Species (IAS) Project and other agencies (iTaukei Affairs Board, Nature Fiji – MareqetiViti, Fiji Navy and The Fiji Police Force, received positive responses from the villages in the Cakaudrove province.

BAF and the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) are co-implementers of the Global Environment Facility (GEF) 6 Invasive Alien Species (“IAS”) Project titled ‘Building Capacities to Address Invasive Alien Species to Enhance the Chances of Long Term Survival of Terrestrial Endemic and Threatened Species on Taveuni Island, Surrounding Islets and Throughout Fiji Project’ (“GEF 6 Project”).

The three – week long Programme was conducted in most coastal settlements from the northern-east right down to the eastern end of Vanua Levu that included the Districts of Tawake, Saqani, Vaturova, Tunuloa, Natewa including Taveuni and its smaller islets of Qamea, Matagi and Laucala from the 14 February – 5 March, 2022.