Fiji-based Professor of Pacific Islands Biogeography, Randy Thaman, has worked with tireless dedication in academia and the natural resources sector in the vast Pacific Island region since he joined The University of the South Pacific (USP) in 1974. The USP is collectively owned by 12 Pacific Island states, five of which are IUCN State Members. He is the only USP staff member to have researched and published on all 12 USP countries.
Includes all agroecosystems, including associated fallow sand protected areas, in both rural and urban areas.
Our ability to conserve biodiversity and to adapt to climate, environmental and economic change in the Pacific Islands