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This project implemented by the National Trust of Fiji builds community climate resilience through sustainably managing the Sigatoka Sand Dunes National Park, which is part of the Sigatoka Sand Dunes ecosystem.

This project will develop forest restoration sites around the National Park, managed by communities and Park staff, and demonstrating tangible nature based solutions such as agroforestry, invasives management, and avoided degradation. These demonstration sites will form the platform for a network of community learning activities, including ethnobotany, building waste management and compost projects. These empowered community networks in climate resilience actions have the opportunity to demonstrate a best practice model for protected area, conservation, agricultural and cultural processes in peri-urban Fiji.

Project objectives ?

• Strengthen the climate resilience of the Sigatoka Sand Dunes ecosystem through establishing 3 forest restoration demonstration areas, achieving 80% community engagement in agroforestry, and reducing the spread of 5 key identified invasive species throughout the Sigatoka Sand Dunes ecosystem by 2025.
• Increased protection of the Sigatoka Sand Dunes ecosystem against fire degradation by establishing 3 natural fire buffer zones and a new fire buffer zone west of the National Park by 2025.
• Increased community awareness and climate adaptation action through the publication of an ethnobotany research and study of the Sigatoka Sand Dunes ecosystem, 80% community participation in the agrinursery, waste management and composting project, and successful implementation of 4 Health Parks, Healthy Peoples Campaign events by HIYH by 2025.