Data management and sharing – creating new value from old data
“In today’s environment, hoarding knowledge ultimately erodes your power. If you know something very important, the way to get power is by actually sharing it.” Joseph Badaracco
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Coral reefs and the business of conservation
CORDIO is bringing coral reefs and the blue economy to the 2nd Business of Conservation Conference hosted by the School of Wildlife Conservation of the African Leadership University in Kigali, Rwanda, from 8-9 September 2019.
Coral reefs in the post-2020 biodiversity targets
Last week in Nairobi the Convention on Biological Diversity officially opened discussions on the next set of targets to take on, after the current Aichi Targets will become due in 2020.
CORDIO at IPBES 7, Paris
CORDIO’s Dr. David Obura was a Coordinating Lead Author in the IPBES Global Assessment report launched in Paris on 6 May 2019. The assessment is the first of its kind to assess, from local to global levels, peoples’ dependence on nature, the degree of impact we are having, and to […]
Coral decline or recovery?
Reefs that were heavily smothered by silt on 28 March are clearing, and stress to the corals seems to be over with little additional mortality. The coming rough and cool seas of the southeast monsoon should return conditions to normal. This is a report of a field survey conducted on […]
Disentangling drivers of the abundance of coral reef fishes in the Western Indian Ocean
Disentangling drivers of the abundance of coral reef fishes in the western Indian Ocean This recent paper led by Melita Samoilys has just been published in Ecology and Evolution; her blog provides a synopsis. Climate change is an increasingly acute pressure on coral reefs and combined with fishing is changing […]
World Ocean Summit 2019 – sustainable tourism in the blue economy
How sustainable is coastal tourism? What is needed to achieve sustainability is discussed here.
Preliminary Ocean Health Index assessments completed for Kenya and Tanzania
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, cultural and social elements of the ocean’s health. The OHI scores reflect how well coastal regions optimize their potential ocean benefits and services in […]
Global footprint and sustainability
The “three horses of sustainability” – the IPAT equation provides a simple but powerful model for understanding the roles of population, affluence and technology, particularly from the challenge posed by the Anthropocene – how to reduce one’s personal or societal impact.
Climate vulnerability in the Comoros Archipelago
The Comoros islands are a poorly known volcanic chain of islands in between Mozambique and Madagascar in the ‘hotspot’ of coral reef biodiversity for the Western Indian Ocean. They still possess some beautiful areas of coral, but are threatened because of the combined effects of over-fishing, sedimentation from deforestation on land, coral […]