Ms Alisi RABUKAWAQA

Fiji Project Liaison Officer, IUCN

Alisi Rabukawaqa has for the past decade has worked in environment conservation, climate activism and indigenous peoples’ traditional rights and knowledge advocacy. 

She works as a marine scientist with the International Union for the Conservation of Nature. She sits on the youth-led grassroots network 350.org Pacific Climate Warriors Council of Elders as the Melanesian representative, providing traditional knowledge on working with Pacific communities and indigenous perspectives to their climate justice work. She also volunteers her time to coordinate the Bua Urban Youth Network - a youth led, grassroots movement from her province in Fiji.

Alisi is also one of the few Melanesian women who have sailed the world’s seas on a vaka, a traditional double-hulled canoe as part of the Te Mana o Te Moana (The Spirit of the Ocean) journey, promoting traditional sustainable shipping and ocean protection.