How Tahiti Travel Services is committed to preserving our cultural and environmental heritage in French Polynesia!
Did you know that birds provide essential services in our environment and elsewhere in Polynesia? Among other things, they pollinate plants, disperse seeds and help fight insects. Birds are excellent indicators of the state of the environment, sentinels of nature. Their study allows us to know the general state of our ecosystems and the environment.
Tahiti Travel services announces its new partnership with MANU (the Polynesian Ornithological Society). This organization is committed to protecting the wild birds of Tahiti and its islands, as well as preserving their habitats.
We are proud to contribute to this commitment.
Who is MANU?
This non-profit association is a non-governmental organization founded in July 2020 by a handful of enthusiasts for the birds of French Polynesia.
MANU is a partner of Bird Life International, a worldwide federation of bird conservation associations. MANU is a member of the Federation of Associations for the Protection of the Environment (F.A.P.E) Te Ora Naho.
What does MANU do?
- Since 2021, MANU and associations in Ua Huka (Marquesas Islands) have been managing a program to prevent the arrival of the island’s black rat.
- Conservation of the Tuamotu redhorse: this bird disappeared from the Gambier and a large number of Tuamotu atolls between the end of the 19th and the 1st half of the 20th century. The species is listed as category A on the list of protected species under French Polynesia’s territorial regulations. It is classified as “endangered” (EN) on the IUCN red list.
- Protection of the Fatu Hiva monarch: A species whose extinction has been avoided, but the situation is still critical. On Fatu Hiva, the situation of the island’s endemic monarch is extremely critical, with fewer than 20 adults in 2021 and only 4 breeding pairs.
