{"id":31978,"date":"2014-03-15T18:03:41","date_gmt":"2014-03-15T16:03:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/oneearth-oneocean.com\/2014\/03\/15\/fiji-president-calls-for-new-culture-of-conservation\/"},"modified":"2014-03-15T18:03:41","modified_gmt":"2014-03-15T16:03:41","slug":"fiji-president-calls-for-new-culture-of-conservation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/oneearth-oneocean.com\/en\/nonresearch-en\/2014\/fiji-president-calls-for-new-culture-of-conservation\/","title":{"rendered":"Fiji President calls for &#8216;new culture&#8217; of conservation"},"content":{"rendered":"<pre><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sprep.org\/biodiversity-ecosystems-management\/fiji-president-calls-for-new-culture-of-conservation-by-wati-talebula-journalism-student-from-fiji-national-university\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">http:\/\/www.sprep.org\/biodiversity-ecosystems-management\/fiji-president-calls-for-new-culture-of-conservation-by-wati-talebula-journalism-student-from-fiji-national-university<\/a>\n\nFiji President calls for 'new culture' of conservation\nPublished on 02 December 2013\n\n2 December 2013, Suva, Fiji - By Wati Talebula: - Fiji&amp;#39;s President Ratu\nEpeli Nailatikau believes the Pacific needs to bring ordinary people\ninto its conservation efforts to overcome &amp;quot;the culture of the throwaway\npackage&amp;quot;\n\nRatu Epeli told delegates gathered for the opening of the 9th Pacific\nIslands Conference on Nature Conservation and Protected Areas in Suva on\nDecember 2, 2013 there was a need for a revolution in personal attitudes.\n\n&amp;quot;For too long, Pacific peoples have embraced one of the worst facets of\nwestern consumerism - the culture of the throwaway package,&amp;quot; Ratu Epeli\nsaid.\n\n&amp;quot;Our villages, towns and cities are strewn with litter, our beaches with\nplastic bottles and plastic bags, and other non-biodegradable containers\nof every kind,&amp;quot; Ratu Epeli said.\n\n&amp;quot;We can blame the manufacturers for packaging their products in these\ncontainers in the first place. But the responsibility for disposing of\nthem properly is solely our own &amp;ndash; all of us.\n\n&amp;quot;We need to inculcate a new culture in the Pacific, one of personal\ncommitment to conservation and sustainable development and the daily\nobservance of it in all our lives. Do not use our pristine environment\nas a rubbish dump.&amp;quot;<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>http:\/\/www.sprep.org\/biodiversity-ecosystems-management\/fiji-president-calls-for-new-culture-of-conservation-by-wati-talebula-journalism-student-from-fiji-national-university Fiji President calls for &#8216;new culture&#8217; of conservation Published on 02 December 2013 2 December 2013, Suva, Fiji &#8211; By Wati Talebula: &#8211; Fiji&amp;#39;s President Ratu Epeli Nailatikau believes the Pacific needs to bring ordinary people into its conservation efforts to overcome &amp;quot;the culture of the throwaway package&amp;quot; Ratu Epeli told delegates gathered for the opening of the 9th Pacific Islands Conference on Nature Conservation and Protected Areas in Suva on December 2, 2013 there was a need for a revolution in personal attitudes. &amp;quot;For too long, Pacific peoples have embraced one of the worst facets of western consumerism &#8211; the culture of the throwaway package,&amp;quot; Ratu Epeli said. &amp;quot;Our villages, towns and cities are strewn with litter, our beaches with plastic bottles and plastic bags, and other non-biodegradable containers of every kind,&amp;quot; Ratu Epeli said. &amp;quot;We can blame the manufacturers for packaging their products in these containers in the first place. But the responsibility for disposing of them properly is solely our own &amp;ndash; all of us. &amp;quot;We need to inculcate a new culture in the Pacific, one of personal commitment to conservation and sustainable development and the daily observance of it in all our lives. Do not use our pristine environment as a rubbish dump.&amp;quot;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3649,3488],"tags":[1585,1587],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v24.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Fiji President calls for &#039;new culture&#039; of conservation - One Earth - One Ocean e. 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