STRONG High Seas project presented at the Permanent Commission for the South Pacific (CPPS)

Project partner Luis Alonso Zapata Padilla of WWF Colombia presented the STRONG High Seas project at the annual General Assembly of the Comisión Permanente del Pacífico Sur (CPPS; Permanent Commission for the South Pacific) in Guayaquil, Ecuador, on 23-26 January 2018.

Mr Zapata Padilla outlined the project’s objectives and project work program, emphasizing the collaboration between the STRONG High Seas project and the Secretariat of the CPPS. The meeting was in attendance by country members Colombia, Ecuador, Peru and Chile as well as Panama. During the meeting the new CPPS General Secretary, Ambassador Mentor Patricio Villagómez Merino was welcomed, following the outgoing Secretary General CNRA Julián Augusto Reyna Moreno.

@ Steve Erique