Strategic Plan 2021-2025
CORDIO East Africa team is looking forward to an exciting and productive five-year programme with mission to improve the health and resilience of marine ecosystems and coastal peoples’ well-being in the Western Indian Ocean.
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Participatory Community Based Monitoring and Evaluation
Participatory Community Based Monitoring and Evaluation The livelihoods and well-being of coastal communities in the WIO largely depend on the integrity of their marine resources. The communities have therefore been perceived to have a great potential to become better stewards if empowered with the appropriate resources (knowledge, skills, tools, funding […]
Ocean InfoHub Partnership – MarCoSouth, WIOMSA, CORDIO & CSIR
Ocean InfoHub Partnership – MarCoSouth, WIOMSA, CORDIO and, CSIR The Marine and Coastal Operations for Southern Africa (MarCoSouth) consortium, funded through the Global Monitoring for Environment and Security (GMES) Africa, is in the process of developing a partnership with a new initiative of the Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission of UNESCO (IOC), […]
Providing the science to support community coral reef conservation across Kenya during the COVID period
2020 was an eventful year and a practice dive on the 13th of November 2020 to refresh the teams SCUBA skills and underwater survey methods in preparation for a two-week scientific survey was welcome by the team itching to get in the water after 7 months locked down. The scientific […]
Are corals of the WIO adapting to their warming environment?
How hot will 2021 be? Looking back, 2020 was tied with 2016 as the warmest year on record, making it the sixth in a series of exceptionally warm years starting in 2015, and 2011-2020 was the warmest decade recorded on the planet. This low level of bleaching was confirmed by […]
Shallow and mesophotic environments of the Pemba Channel
In this latest study published in Ocean & Coastal Management on 29th December 2020, Kennedy Osuka and co-authors from the SOLSTICE-WIO project and University of York utilised autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV) to describe the characteristics of water column, substratum and benthic communities occurring in the shallow (<30 m) and mesophotic […]
The WIO coral reef Red List of Ecosystems study sets the stage for national assessments in Kenya
As a follow up to the Western Indian Ocean (WIO) Red List of Ecosystems (RLE) assessment, CORDIO plans to work with national partners to develop needs-based coral reef assessments to inform coral reef management and policy in three focus countries: Kenya, Tanzania, Mozambique. The assessments will help prioritize areas for […]
Ocean Science In Action
This WIO-focused free Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) starts this October 5th. Ocean Science in Action: Addressing Marine Ecosystems and Food Security in the Western Indian Ocean will introduce learners to innovative marine technologies and their applications used to tackle the challenges of the sustainable management of marine ecosystems. The […]
Sharks are functionally extinct from many reefs but hope remains
A landmark study published in Nature reveals sharks are absent on 20% of world’s coral reefs! The study was led by Aaron MacNeil and co-authors from the Global FinPrint project, including CORDIO’s Melita Samoilys, Kennedy Osuka and Clay Obota. The study provides a benchmark for the status of reef sharks […]
Livelihoods & Conservation… Lending your voice through collective action…
A women’s group initiative to conserve the environment and make a living out of the exercise might soon turn out to be a source of hopelessness and worry unless collective action to support the group is initiated. The story was broken in an online article (https://www.the-star.co.ke/news/2020-06-19-mida-creek-women-seek-market-for-sh10m-mangrove-seedlings/) published on the 19th […]