Tonga Mangroves

The Department of Environment, under the Ministry of MEIDCC, yesterday opened a national Tonga Red List of Eco System Expert Data Workshop in Nuku’alofa.

Now onto its second day, the workshop is being facilitated by the IUCN and is being held at the MEIDECC conference room.

A total of 16 participants are part of the workshop that ends tomorrow.

The programme which is aimed at helping to conduct the ecosystem risk assessment of Tonga’s Mangrove Ecosystem and develop monitoring system, is being coordinated by the Department of Environment, under the Ministry of MEIDECC

The ‘Tonga Red List of Ecosystems – Expert Data Workshop’ will be held on 22-24 October at the MEIDECC Conference Room.

The project aims to enable the documentation of the role of bidioversity in disaster risk management and convening related capacity building development in the Pacific.