Biodiversity and Conservation in the Pacific Islands: Why Are We Not Succeeding?

Conservation Biology: Voices from the Tropics

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 182-187

  Brodie, Gilianne ^a   Pikacha, Patrick ^b   Tuiwawa, Marika ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE SOUTH PACIFIC   (Fiji)

^b Solomon Islands Community Conservation Partnership ^*  (Solomon Islands)

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EID: 84961895731     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9781118679838.ch21     Document Type: Chapter

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