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The Seventh Meeting of the Regional Working Group on Wetlands was successfully convened in Manila, Philippines from 19th-21st June. The wetlands focal points from Cambodia, China, Philippines, Thailand, and Vietnam, and the regional wetlands expert, Dr. Sansanee Choowaew, attended the meeting. The meeting discussed and revised the wetland component’s inputs to the Regional Strategic Action Programme (SAP). Please click here to access the report of the meeting.
The Second Mayors’ Roundtable was successfully concluded in Beihai, Guangxi, China, on 8th June 2006. Four provincial governors, ten mayors, and more than forty national focal points and technical managers and staff from 22 demonstration sites met in Beihai during 6th – 8th June 2006 to exchange their experience and good practice in implementing demonstration site activities and integrating environmental management into local coastal development. 
Ms. Chee Phaik Ean, Head of the Aquatic Ecosystem Section of Malaysia’s Fisheries Research Institute, attended the meeting on behalf of the Malaysian Department of Fisheries. This was the first Regional Working Group on Fisheries meeting at which the Malaysian Department of Fisheries was represented, and the group agreed to accord Ms. Chee the status of full member of the working group. Mr. Nazori Djazuli, Head of the Planning Division of the Secretariat General of Capture Fisheries, participated in the meeting as an observer. Please 
The Fourth Meeting of the Regional Task Force on Legal Matters was successfully convened in Shantou, China, 24th – 27th April 2006. In addition to the Members of the Task Force, the meeting was attended by observers from China’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the State Environmental Protection Administration, the Vice Mayor and Vice Secretary General of the People’s Government of Shantou City, and the Director of the Forestry Bureau responsible for mangrove management. Click here to access the report of the meeting.
At the Sixth Meeting of the Regional Scientific and Technical Committee during December 2005, a small working group comprised of the National Technical Focal Points from Vietnam and the Philippines, and the two expert members Dr. Ong Jin-Eong and Dr. Anond Snidvongs, was formed to discuss an approach to developing the proposal for a training programme in the context of the South China Sea Project.
The Fisheries Component of the UNEP/GEF South China Sea Project has been working closely with the Southeast Asian Fisheries Development Centre (
Translating policy into action is an ongoing focus of the SCS Project, and essential for meeting the SCS Project objective of establishing a regionally co-ordinated approach to action aimed at reversing environmental degradation trends in the South China Sea and Gulf of Thailand. As such, the fisheries component, led by the Regional Working Group for the Fisheries Component (RWG-F), is developing mechanisms to effect the integration of fisheries and habitat management, as well as establishing examples of best practice in the management of the environmental aspects of regional coastal and marine fisheries.
South China Sea Project Outputs
