Wetland areas is one of the important and rare ecosystems which provides habitat to thousands of aquatic and terrestrial plants and animals. In the ITaukei context wetlands provide homes to many of our scared histories. A lake cannot emerge by its own; there is legend behind its existence and a story in every famous wetlands area in Fiji. Wetland areas house many of our totem species which includes fish, insects, trees, birds and bats. In the cultural ITaukei hierarchy, we have the three main confederacies of Kubuna, Burebasaga and Tovata and from this comes our respective province, from the province comes our districts, our villages, tribes, clans and households. Every indigenous ITaukei has this structure embedded within themselves and it flows through their veins. Totem species (I Cavuti) can be in a broader sense from provincial, district and tribal levels; the most interesting is when it’s a clan (Mataqali) totem, because it is specific and we hold that dear. I cavuti contributes to freshwater wetlands conservation and management in the sense that we reflect ourselves to our Icavuti or totem. ITaukei are reluctant to eat their totem fish, cut down their totem trees or hunt their totem birds and bats. One has to be prepared in facing the repercussions of mentioning an I cavuti of another person or clan because the whole clan will team up on him or her with high tide kava bowls; that is the ITaukei spirit of protecting and nurturing our I cavuti or totem species biodiversity. The topic shared above will specify the importance of “I cavuti”, how the ITaukeis value them, and how this valuable biocultural perspective in practice has been widely contributing to conserving and maintaining ITaukei freshwater wetlands.