
Plants and People: Baseline Floristic and Ethnobotanical Surveys in Tafea Province, Vanuatu
Grantee Name: New York Botanical Garden
- Hotspot
- East Melanesian Islands
- Location
- Vanuatu
- Amount
- $156,849
- Dates
- Jun 2014 – Dec 2016
- Keywords
- Awareness, Capacity building, Community-based conservation, Ethnobotany, Indigenous People, Medicinal plants, Research
Undertake baseline surveys of plant diversity in Vanuatu’s Tafea Province, focusing on three priority sites: Aneityum, Futuna and Green Hill. Build local capacity for biodiversity, taxonomic, ethnobiological and ethnomedical research among key government, scientific, cultural and community-based institutions. Widely disseminate the results to inform environmental policy, natural resource management and health care in Tafea Province, Vanuatu and the Pacific.
1 Empower local communities to protect and manage globally significant biodiversity at priority Key Biodiversity Areas under-served by current conservation efforts
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