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    CONVENTION ON CONSERVATION OF NATURE IN THE SOUTH PACIFIC

Objectives
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     To take action for the conservation, utilization and
development of the natural resources of the South Pacific region
through careful planning and management for the benefit of present
and future generations.

Summary of provisions
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     (a)  Parties to create protected areas to safeguard
representative samples of natural ecosystems, superlative scenery,
striking geological formations and regions and objects of aesthetic,
historic, cultural or scientific value (art.2);

     (b)  National parks not to be altered so as to reduce their
area except after the fullest investigation, their resources not to
be subject to commercial exploitation, hunting and collection of
species to be prohibited and provision to be made for visitors (art.
3);

     (c)  Parties to maintain lists of indigenous fauna and flora
in danger of extinction and to give such species as complete
protection as possible (art. 5);

     (d)  Provision may be made as appropriate for customary use of
areas and species in accordance with traditional cultural practices
(art. 6).

Membership
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     Open to all States members, or eligible to be invited to
become members, of the South Pacific Commission, until 31 December
1977 for signature subject to ratification, and thereafter for
accession.  Instruments of ratification and accession to be
deposited with the Government of Western Samoa.

     Date of adoption          12.6.1976
     Place of adoption         Apia, Western Samoa
     Date of entry into force  28.6.1990
     Languages                 English, French
     Depositary                Western Samoa
  
     Participant               Ratification/               
                               Accession     
     -----------               -------------                                                                  

     Australia                 28. 3.1990                     
     Cook Islands              24. 6.1987
     Fiji                      18. 9.1989                   
     France                    20. 1.1989
     Western Samoa             20. 7.1990

Convention Secretariat
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Ministry of Foreign Affairs
P.O. Box L 1816
Apia, Western Samoa
Tel:    (685) 21500
Fax:    (685) 21504
Telex:  211 MALO, SX

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