On Tuesday, 5th August, the Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment (MNRE) carried out a significant conservation initiative on Nu‘utele Island, one of Aleipata’s offshore islands. This operation was conducted in partnership with the Secretariat of the Pacific Regional Environment Programme (SPREP), under the Pacific Regional Invasive Species Management Support Service (PRISMSS) and with Island Conservation (IC).
The effort was part of the PRISMSS Restoring Island Resilience (RIR) Predator Free Pacific (PFP) programme, which aims to protect and restore island ecosystems by removing invasive species, with the operation enabled through financial support to the PRISMSS RIR from New Zealand’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade (NZMFAT) and the United Kingdom’s International Development.
