Meet to discuss Kuk site

PAPUA New Guinea’s Kuk Early Agricultural Site is among the heritage sites to be discussed at a regional training course in Fiji this week.
Heritage site managers from around the region are attending a course in Suva funded by the Australian government through the UNESCO-Australian Funds-in-Trust.
It is organised by the Pacific Heritage Hub and the UNESCO office in Apia, Samoa, in cooperation with the University of the South Pacific.
The course will be facilitated by Dr Anita Smith, an archaeologist and a senior lecturer at Deakin University in Australia.
Since 2004, Smith has been a consultant to the UNESCO Pacific World Heritage Programme, facilitating regional meetings, developing world heritage nominations and designing regional training and heritage capacity building programmes.
Smith has advised a number of the Pacific Island governments including Fiji, Samoa, Tonga, French Polynesia, Palau, FSM and the Solomon Islands on the management and protection of heritage especially in regard to World Heritage.
The 20 participants will discuss the World Heritage Convention and its potential in the Pacific region.