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Hawaii and the Pacific Islands (13443 words) |
 | Finally, the Hawaiian Islands have been studied more intensively and received more conservation management attention than most other Pacific islands (except New Zealand), primarily because Hawaii is a U.S. state and because the Hawaiian Islands have a set of unique animals and plants that are renowned for their evolution in geographic isolation. |
| Pacific island cloud forests must be considered a high conservation priority because of their importance as traditional sources of food, building materials, medicines, and various other material products for indigenous peoples, as well as for their highly endemic biological diversity (Raynor 1993; Hamilton et al. |
| Pacific island ecosystems, because of their very small land size, are highly vulnerable to numerous human activities such as road construction, tourism development, military use, mining, hydropower development, forest fires, and pollution. |
| A History of the Pacific Islands (230 words) |
| "Dr. Campbell's awareness of the importance of the active roles which Pacific islanders played in the shaping of the histories of their own countries is evident throughout: he has examined, whenever he could, historical events and processes from the point of view and interests of the islanders concerned. |
| History of the Pacific Islands marks the first time in forty years that a balanced and succinct introduction to the peoples of the Pacific islands has been made avaliable to students, travellers, and scholars. |
| A History of the Pacific Islandsis a bright, lively survey of the kind not attempted since Douglas Oliver's celebrated The Pacific Islands was first published in 1951. |
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