© WWF-Canon / Soh Koon CHNG
Island boy playing among dead corals. Honiara, Solomon Islands.
It is the waters and streams of this region that provide the food and income for its inhabitants. It is the beauty and natural wealth of this region that encourages others to journey here, and in doing so contribute, one hopes positively, to its development.
And it is the combination of protection, local stewardship and development that will allow the people of the Bismarck Solomon Seas to look forward to a healthy and happy future for many generations.
Nestled within the expansive boundaries of the BSSE lies a unique center of tropical marine biodiversity exemplified by:
- An extraordinary diversity of reefs, seagrasses, deep sea and pelagic habitats
- Globally diverse centers of reef-building corals and reef fish
- The largest and most critical remaining Pacific leatherback turtle nesting sites
- A historic center of sperm whale abundance in the tropics
- The major biogeographic transition zone between the Indonesian, Philippine, Micronesian, Coral Sea and central Pacific regions.
