Guest bloggers

will be appearing on our VEPA blog, Elana from Aus Aid who is here for a year to help co-ordinate our community efforts and educational methods and Damian, who has just finished his studies in Environmental Science is here to volunteer for 3-6 months.

Both of them will be blogging as they go about their work, projects and experiences of volunteering here in Vava'u.

Welcome to both of you, and looking forward to the next period of VEPA.

2012 Calender of Projects

2012 is going to be a busy year for VEPA, continuing on is our Waste Management and Recycling Project which is going into Year 2 of our 5 Year Plan. Our efforts on the IWRM Water as a Resource Project will be getting lots of attention in the coming months with media efforts and children's school books that are awaiting printing.

We will be reviewing the Mangrove Assessment and seeing how we can improve and reduce the removal of mangroves that has occurred in the last month.

Adding 3 new projects this year for Soil Erosion, Turtle Monitoring and Protection of Nesting Sites, and turning our attention to Coral Reefs. A good mix of land and marine projects.

Again we would appreciate any help or funding opportunities that are available, so please look out for lots of information that is coming and how you can be involved.

2011 sucess

2011 has been a very successful year for VEPA. Through funding from both Canada Fund and the US State department, we have made great progress on our waste management and recycling project. Keep Vava'u Green also sponsored bins to the domestic airport. Thank you to all those that were a part of these projects.

Through clean ups and recycling days in communities to placing waste and recycling bins around town, we are already seeing a good difference in the cleanliness of certain areas. There is still much to be done.

Great news already for 2012, is that VEPA will be getting an Aus Aid Volunteer to help us. We can not wait for her arrival and to introduce her to the efforts of VEPA.

So from all the board, we would like to whole heatedly thank everyone that has helped us this year, we are looking forward to more successes in 2012.

May you all have a great and safe New Years Eve and here is to furthering conservation around the world in 2012.