Plants and People of Vanuatu
Plants mo Pipol blong Vanuatu
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Plants mo Pipol blong Vanuatu

Plants mo Pipol blong Vanuatu (Plants and People of Vanuatu) is a collaborative program initiated in 2013 by the Vanuatu National Herbarium, the Vanuatu Kaljoral Senta, and the New York Botanical Garden. Several other partner institutions later joined the endeavor, including the University of the South Pacific, the University of Hawaii, California State University–East Bay, and Swarthmore College.

Starting in the southernmost Province of Tafea, the major goals of the project are:

  • to document the diversity and distribution of Vanuatu's plants,
  • to preserve information regarding the general ethnobotanical uses of these plants,
  • to record the names of these plants in the 138+ languages indigenous to Vanuatu, and
  • to protect and conserve Vanuatu’s threatened plant species and ecosystems.

The following links provide access to publications resulting from this project, as well as useful resources for helping to understand Vanuatu’s plant biodiversity.

Technical issues related to these pages should be brought to the attention of Dominik M. Ramík ([email protected]).  Scientific issues should be brought to the attention of Greg Plunkett ([email protected]).