[Comment] Healthy Islands at 30: revitalising an ecological framework for planetary health

In 1995, health ministers from the Pacific Islands gathered on Yanuca Island, Fiji, to declare a visionary Healthy Islands idea, a holistic framework linking human wellbeing with environmental stewardship. The ministers imagined island communities where children thrive, people live and age with dignity, and “ecological balance is a source of pride and the ocean which sustains us is protected”.1 This Healthy Islands vision anticipated by decades the core principles of the current planetary health movement.