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Acknowledgements.
Clearly this compendium could not have
been undertaken if the individual country reports hadn’t first been
undertaken. We thank all those collators
and contributors to both the full surveys and the desk reviews of each of the
countries that are captured in the References above. While there were times when we have decided
not to use all the sites suggested in some of these reports, we have
nevertheless found the text and documentation priceless in terms of getting to
understand better the situations and circumstances in each of the
countries. Special thanks must go to
James Millett who initiated the array of desk reviews that have contributed
substantially to this document.
The process of collating and presenting
the information in this document was made so much easier by the patient
encouragement and considered advice of Lincoln Fishpool, Mike Evans and Ben
Lascelles at BirdLife International Cambridge.
They have stoically put up with all sorts of madcap requests and
suggestions and politely managed to steer us back on target on many occasions
in the last three months. Finally many
thanks to all the other staff in the BirdLife Fiji office who
have encouraged and supported us, and politely humoured us when times got
tough. It has been so much easier to
produce this as a consequence.
This compendium is in no way meant to compare
with the major reports on IBA distribution across continents, rather it is
a call to arms in the Pacific Region to indicate just how much has been identified,
how much still needs to be done and, hopefully, just how much benefit will
come from the site conservation that the IBA programme is intended to deliver.