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Pacific Islands Office Resource Guide:
Environmental Protection
Organizations | Agencies | Vendors
American Samoa Government Environmental Protection Agency
Office of the Governor
Pago Pago, AS 96799
Phone: (684) 633-2304 Fax: (684) 633-5801
Bureau of Natural Resources and Development
P.O. Box 100, Koror, Palau 96940
CNMI Division of Environmental Quality
PO Box 1304, Saipan, MP 96950
Tel: (670) 234-6114 Fax: (670) 234-1003
deq@saipan.com (deq@saipan.com)
Conservation International
1015 18th Street NW, #1000, Washington, DC 20036
Phone: (800) 429-5660 or (202) 429-5660 Fax: (202) 887-5188
"Conservation International (CI) is a field-based, non-profit organization that protects the Earth's biologically richest areas and helps the people who live there improve their quality of life. CI uses science, economics, policy, and community involvement to promote biodiversity conservation in tropical rain forests and other endangered ecosystems worldwide. Through CI's environmentally sensitive and economically sound approach, resource protection is good business for everyone."
Earthwatch Institute
680 Mr. Auburn Street, Box 9104, Watertown, MA 02272-9104
Phone: (800) 776-0188 or (617) 926-8200 Fax: (617) 926-8532
info@earthwatch.org (info@earthwatch.org)
Earthwatch Australia
1st Floor, 453-457 Elizabeth Street, Melbourne, 3000, Australia
Phone: (03) 9600-9100 Fax: (03) 9600-9066
"Earthwatch is an international nonprofit organization which supports scientific field research worldwide through its EarthCorps of citizens and scientists working together to improve our understanding of the planet. Earthwatch's mission is to build a sustainable world through an active partnership between scientist and citizen. Through public participation in field research, Earthwatch helps scientists gather data and communicate information that will empower people and governments to act wisely as global citizens."
Environmental Health Center
A Division of the National Safety Council
1025 Connecticut Avenue, NW, Suite 1200, Washington DC 20036
Greenpeace USA
1436 U Street, NW, Washington, DC 20009
Tel: (202) 462-1177 Fax: (202) 462-4507
Guam Environmental Protection Agency
PO Box 22439, GMF, Barrigada, Guam 96921
Tel: (671) 475-1658 Fax: (671) 477-9402
Institute of Pacific Islands Forestry
Box 215, Yap, FM 96943
Tel: (691) 350-4630 Fax: (691) 350-2455
Institute of Pacific Islands Forestry, USDA, Forest Service
1151 Punchbowl St., Rm. 323, Honolulu, HI 96813
Tel:(808)522-8230 Fax: (808)522-8236
The mission of the Institute of Pacific Islands Forestry is to develop knowledge needed to restore, protect, and sustain upland and wetland forests of the Pacific for purposes of conservation and utilization. This is accomplished through the activities of four interdisciplinary teams of professionals: 1) forest management services, which deals with outreach and training, implementation of research findings in management, and administration of grants to local governments; 2) non-indigenous species, which deals with the management and containment of alien, perennial plants that threaten native forests; 3) restoration which deals with the re-establishment of forests that provide desirable services (such as conservation of biological diversity) as well as products (such as freshwater and wood); 4) forested wetlands, which deals with the ecology and management of both freshwater and saline swamp forests.
Melekau Environmental, Palau
Phone (680) 488-4733 Fax: (680) 488-4650
email: Melekau@Palaunet.com (Melekau@Palaunet.com)
JON VOGT, Principal
Melekau is Palauan for protecting and sheltering, in the way that the fronds of a coconut palm can be used to protect us from the elements. Melekau Environmental is dedicated to providing the highest possible level of professional services for environmental protection in Palau. We welcome the opportunity to discuss our experience and services in more detail with you.
Services Offered: Melekau Environmental can provide a range of environmental and related services including: * Environmental impact assessment and permitting; * Environmental management, including design and development of Environmental Management Systems and Plans; * Development and implementation of compliance monitoring programs; * Environmental auditing; * Training of personnel in environmental management, protection and monitoring procedures.
Natural Resources Conservation Service
Contact: Palau Field Office, Natural Resource Conservation Service
Pirrentozzi Building, Lee Puu Street, Koror
Mailing Address:
Natural Resource Conservation Service
P. O. Box 430, Koror, Republic of Palau 96940
Phone 680-488-5843 Fax 680-488-5842
The United States Department of Agriculture, Natural Resource Conservation Service has recently opened an office in the Republic of Palau. The main objective of the Natural Resource Conservation Service is to provide technical assistance in conservation planning for private land owners. We assist land owners in finding solutions to natural resource problems such as soil erosion, water management, water quality concerns and protection, wildlife habitat protection, wetland protection, and environmental quality protection. These services are provided in coordination with local stakeholders including local and national resource groups on areas ranging from individual farms to whole watersheds or islands. Robin DeMeo, is the Resource Conservationist for Palau with Natural Resources Conservation Service. For more information call or visit the Natural Resource Conservation Service office in Palau.
The Nature Conservancy, Federated States of Micronesia
Bill Raynor
P.O. Box 216, Kolonia, Pohnpei, FSM 96941
Phone: 691-320-4267 Fax: 691-320-7422
Asia/Pacific Regional Office: 1116 Smith Street, Honolulu, HI 96817
International Headquarters: 1815 N. Lynn Street, Arlington, VA 22209
The Nature Conservancy is an international non-profit organization dedicated to preserving the diversity of life through protecting the land and water species need to survive. We work with local people on site to improve local conservation, stewardship, leadership, science, funding, skills transfer, and promotion of development opportunities.
The Nature Conservancy, Palau
Palau Field Office, The Nature Conservancy, Asia/Pacific Region
P.O. Box 1738, Koror, Palau 96940
Dr. Andrew Smith, Coastal Marine Scientist
Tel: (680) 488-2017 Fax: (680) 488-4550
The Nature Conservancy, Asia/Pacific Region
1116 Smith St., Suite 201, Honolulu, HI 96817
Ms. Audrey Newman, Deputy Director
Tel: (808) 537-4508 Fax: (808) 545-2019
The Nature Conservancy preserves plants, animals, and natural communities that represent the diversity of life on Earth by protecting the lands and waters they need to survive. Operating in the United States for the past forty years, the Conservancy also has launched programs in Latin America, the Caribbean, and the Asia/Pacific region to help protect millions of acres outside the United States. The operator of the largest private system of nature sanctuaries in the world, the Conservancy owns and manages more than 1,600 preserves throughout the U.S.
Palau Conservation Society
P.O. Box 1811, Koror, PW 96940, Republic of Palau
Tel: (680) 488-3993 or 488-4617 Fax: (680) 488-3990
PCs@palaunet.com (PCs@palaunet.com)
The Palau Conservation Society is a registered non-profit organization in Palau. Our mission is to work with the community to preserve the nation's unique natural environment and to perpetuate its conservation ethic for the social and economic benefit of the present and future generations of all Palauans and for the education and enjoyment of all who visit our islands. Ngerel a Biib is the newsletter published by the Palau Conservation Society.
Palau Environmental Quality Protection Board
P.O. Box 100, Koror, Palau 96940
Tel: (680) 488-1639 Fax: (680) 488-2963
eqbp@palaunet.com (eqbp@palaunet.com)
Pacific Islands Contact Office (PICO), USEPA Region 9
P.O. Box 50003, Honolulu, HI 96850
Phone: (808) 541-2710 Fax: (808) 541-2712
Vicki Tsuhako (tsuhako.vicki@epamail.epa.gov)
Dean Higuchi (higuchi.dean@epamail.epa.gov)
EPA Headquarters
Region 9
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's Pacific Islands Contact Office (PICO) in Honolulu serves as a resource for information on all EPA programs. PICO provides EPA materials to the general public; Federal, State of Hawaii and county government agencies; elected officials; and environmental organization. A library and environmental information files are maintained. PICO also serves as a repository for documents involving any EPA Pacific Area hearing or meeting announced through public notice. The Pico staff conducts environmental outreach activities for Hawaii schools, community groups and environmental events. Teacher information packets of environmental lesson materials are available. PICO staff also speak at schools (all grade levels) and environmental events.
South Pacific Regional Environment Programme (SPREP)
Mr Gerald Miles, Sustainable Development Officer
P.O. Box 240, Apia Western Samoa
Voice: (685) 21929 Fax: (685) 20231
spree@pactok.peg.apc.org (spree@pactok.peg.apc.org)
SPREP provides a coordinated regional approach to environmental problems, serving as an information referral centre and providing technical assistance to its member governments among the Pacific Islands countries and territories. Work focuses on natural resource management; protected areas and biodiversity conservation; coastal and marine activities. SPREP was established to promote co-operation in the South Pacific region and to provide assistance to protect and improve its environment and to ensure sustainable development for future generations. SPREP's objectives include monitoring and assessing the region's state of the environment, promotion and development of programmes to protect the ecosystems (including marine ecosystems and species) while ensuring ecologically sustainable use of resources, and reduction of pollution in the marine environment.
United Nations Environment Programme
Contact: UNEP, P.O. Box 30552 Nairobi, Kenya
Mr Tore J. Brevik Chief, Information and Public Affairs
Tel: (254) 2-62-1234/3292 Fax: (254) 2-62-3927/3692
ipainfo@unep.org (ipainfo@unep.org)
The United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) is built on a heritage of service to the environment. As one of the productive consequences of the 1972 Stockholm Conference on the Human Environment, UNEP provides an integrative and interactive mechanism through which a large number of separate efforts by intergovernmental, non-governmental, national and regional bodies in the service of the environment are reinforced and interrelated. UNEP was established as the environmental conscience of the United Nations system, and has been creating a basis for comprehensive consideration and coordinated action within the UN on the problems of the human environment.
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Region 9
75 Hawthorne Street, San Francisco, CA 94105
(415) 947-8000
Pacific Islands Contact Office (PICO)
P.O. Box 50003, Honolulu, HI 96850
(808) 541-2710
U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
PPP 171 Box 10000, Saipan, MP 96950-9504
United Nations Environment Programme
New York Liaison Office (Headquarters)
First Avenue and East 42 Street, New York, NY 10017
Tel: (212) 963-1234 Fax: (212) 963-4879
Winzler & Kelly Palau, LTD., Consulting Engineers
P.O. Box 1714-WlO5, Koror, Republic of Palau, 96940
Ron Gonzales, President
Phone: (680) 488-3738 Fax: (680) 488-3739
wkpalau@palaunet.com (wkpalau@palaunet.com )
"Winzler & Kelly Palau, Ltd. is a full service professional engineering consulting firm, the only one of its kind in the Republic of Palau. We are associated with Winzler & Kelly Consulting Engineers, a consulting engineering firm headquartered in Eureka, California, with branch offices in San Francisco and Santa Rosa California; the island of Guam; and the island of Saipan in the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands. We are a multi-disciplinary firm, with our Eureka office serving as our Environmental Services headquarters. Winzler & Kelly Palau, Ltd. has completed the first Environmental Impact Statement for the Palau Environmental Quality Protection Board, and has completed several other environmental projects in Palau, including Environmental Assessments, studies for groundwater protection, and work related to landfill closure plans and relocation of landfills in Palau. Winzler & Kelly has also completed numerous environmental studies for projects on Guam and Saipan, and throughout California. In Palau, we have established a cohesive work team, utilizing local and regional experts in terrestrial and aquatic biology, archaeology, cultural resources, and unexploded ordnance detection, an especially important issue here in Micronesia."
World Wildlife Fund
1250 24th Street, NW, Washington, DC 20037
Tel: (202) 293-4800 Fax: (202) 293-9211
YAP Institute of Natural Science
Margie Falanruw (mfalanruw@mail.fm)
P.O. Box 215, Yap, FM 96943
Tel: (691)350-2104 Fax: (691)350-4115
The Yap Institute of Natural Science is a small, locally dedicated, nonprofit organization engaged in the collection of ethnobiological knowledge and research in natural history, adaptive technology, and ecologically sound development, making applications were possible. We are dedicated to the ideal of maintaining indigenous integrity through wise, sustainable use of local resources, and the search for a valid ethno-ecological lifestyle in the Yap islands ecosystem. YINS fills gaps between pure science, the wealth of knowledge and experience of the people of Yap islands, and practical needs which may be benefitted by scientific knowledge. All too often scientific accomplishment in this area has left with its author. We have the advantage of being permanently on Yap and are therefore able to maintain a continuity of knowledge and application. The institute was chartered in 1975 and, among other projects, produces an annual Yap Almanac Calendar which provides information on sustainable use of natural resources.
Environmental Conversation Publications
Ngerel a Biib: Newsletter of the Palau Conservation SocietyContact: Palau Conservation Society
P.O. Box 1811, Koror, PW 96940, Republic of Palau
Tel: (680) 488-3993 or 488-4617 Fax: (680) 488-3990
PCs@palaunet.com (PCs@palaunet.com)
The Palau Conservation Society is a registered non-profit organization in Palau. Our mission is to work with the community to preserve the nation's unique natural environment and to perpetuate its conservation ethic for the social and economic benefit of the present and future generations of all Palauans and for the education and enjoyment of all who visit our islands.
Educational Environmental Conversation Programs
Hawai'i Environmental Education Association
P.O. Box 1236, Honolulu, Hawai'i 96807
The Hawai'i Environmental Education Association (HEEA), incorporated in 1989, is a not-for-profit, tax-exempt organization dedicated to promoting environmental education in the state of Hawai'i. HEEA serves environmental educators who develop curricular and conduct programs in nature studies, ecology, environmental issues, and resource management. HEEA promotes networking among formal and informal educators in the schools, government, businesses, and not-for-profit organizations. HEEA is not, however, an environmental advocacy group. Our goals are to provide opportunities for: professional development, sharing of curricular and resource materials, learning about innovative and effective programs, fostering communication among environmental educators, and public support of environmental education.
Palau Community College
P.O. Box 9, Koror, Palau 96940, Republic of Palau
Claire Gronow (Claire Gronow)
Phone: (680) 488-2470/1 Fax: (680) 488-2447
Palau Community College is a post-secondary 2 year college. Students can take courses in general science and environmental studies as part of the Liberal Arts, Business, Agriculture or Engineering programs. Interested people may also enroll in individual courses. Palau Community College hope to offer a full Environmental & Marine Science program within the next five years.