Declaration of protected area of biological diversity (L. N. No. 108)

299 BY AUTHORITY NO. 108 Monday 21st March 2022 EXTRA-ORDINARY GAZETTE LEGAL NOTICE The following is published as a Supplement to this Gazette: [Legal Notice No. 108] Honiara, Solomon Islands Printed under the authority of the Solomon Islands Government Printed by Provincial Press 285 SUPPLEMENT to the Solomon Islands Gazette Monday 21st March, 2022 S.I. No. 96 [Legal Notice No. 108] PROTECTED AREAS ACT 2010 (No. 4 of 2010) DECLARATION OF PROTECTED AREA OF BIOLOGICAL DIVERSITY I, Hon. Stanley Festus Sofu, Minister for Environment, Climate Change, Disaster Management and Meteorology, on the recommendation of the Director, under section 10 (1) of the Protected Areas Act 2010, declare that the Latitude coordinates in column 2 and column 5 and the Longitude coordinates in column 3 and column 6 in the Schedule, describe the boundaries of the VURI FOREST CONSERVATION AREA, located in Choiseul Province and that it is a protected area of biological diversity significance. 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HON. STANLEY FESTUS SOFU MINISTER FOR ENVIRONMENT, CLIMATE CHANGE, DISASTER MANAGEMENT AND METEOROLOGY