This page summarizes the issues around sand harvesting in Kwale County in 2019, from the perspective of coral reef health and actions CORDIO (through David Obura) has taken to promote evidence-based decisions ...
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Northern Mozambique Channel // SDG 14 scenarios East and Southern Africa (ESA) comprises ten coastal countries bordering the Western Indian Ocean (WIO) – Comoros, France, Kenya, Madagascar, Mauritius, ...
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The IUCN Red List of Ecosystems is a global framework for assessing the status of ecosystems. It aims to support conservation, resource use, and management decisions by identifying ecosystems most at risk ...
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The Ocean Health Index (OHI) is a scientific framework used to measure how healthy oceans are. It is the first integrated assessment framework that scientifically combines key biological, physical, economic, ...
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Step declines in coral reef health resulted from major coral bleaching in 1998 (25% loss) and 2016 (10% loss). This is the main finding from the latest GCRMN regional report on the state of coral reefs ...
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Coastal communities in eastern Africa are increasingly using sustainable approaches to manage marine resources to both improve the ecological status of their local environments and secure livelihoods. ...
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CORDIO has produced the film “LMMAs in Africa”. It explains why LMMAs are beneficial to coastal communities, how they are established and what they are. It is designed for local fishing ...
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Using standardised methods for surveying reef fishes we have quantified reef fish species diversity and abundance methods in Tanzania, Mozambique, Comoros, Madagascar, and recently in Chagos (see methods ...
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Sharks have become extremely rare in East Africa. Underwater surveys on reefs in Tanzania, Comoros, Madagascar and Mozambique to assess population densities of large reef associated fishes recorded no ...
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A wide range of reef fishes aggregate in large numbers to spawn, including many species from highly valued food fish families. See this new video released on www.scrfa.org to see why spawning aggregations ...
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Small-scale artisanal coastal fisheries provide over 80% of household income hence plays a vital role in food security of developing countries. However, they are frequently undervalued and characterised ...
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An open access geospatial data repository for the Western Indian Ocean MASPAWIO provides access to marine spatial datasets, providing layers useful for marine spatial planning, management ...
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