Project News & Field Updates
Development of community health programme in Mozambique holds promise for enacting conservation
August 22, 2016
MZ4 Project Update: Jan thru June 2016 In this period, Endangered Wildlife Trust (EWT) staff had a visit to Madagascar. The visit was organised by Blue Ventures and aimed at building EWT’s capacity for the development and application of community-based incentives for conservation in Mozambique (for more information on this progress see update on MZ1). […]Family planning and alternatives to fishing get off the ground in Mozambique
August 22, 2016
MZ1 Project Update: Jan thru June 2016 The project lead, Blue Ventures (BV) works in close collaboration with the lead of MZ4, Endangered Wildlife Trust (EWT), sharing experience and lessons learned from the establishment of community-based conservation programmes in Madagascar, providing expert support. MZ1 supports the incentives work in Mozambique addressing the issues of unmet […]Team pioneers drone survey in remote areas of Malaysia and local school kids get a little dugong diplomacy
August 22, 2016
In this reporting period, Sarawak Forestry Corporation (SFC), carried out capacity building of its own staff to prepare for the collection of dugong and seagrass data (global Project activity 312) and awareness raising among local community to gain more local support for the establishment of the MPA. 93 secondary school students from four schools in […]Aerial survey of dugong and seagrass, community interviews, and lobbying keeps Malaysian partner busy in Johor
August 22, 2016
MY4 Project Update: Jan thru June 2016 During this reporting period, MareCet conducted different surveys to fill in knowledge gaps for dugongs and seagrass in the project site, including an aerial survey (to which MareCet also invited team members of the Partner, leading MY1), seagrass mapping and dugong feeding trails survey, two community consultation interview […]Learning English with ‘Adventures of Karum the Dugong’ in Malaysia
August 22, 2016
MG3 Project Update: Jan thru June 2016 In this reporting period, USM focused on the development of awareness raising materials for local communities in the MY3 pilot site depicting the importance and conservation of dugongs and seagrass. T-shirts, posters, A4 size stickers were designed, using also volunteers’ support. The text for the posters and the […]Madagascar mapping, interviews, and deployed dugong detectors – much success and a few setbacks
August 22, 2016
MG6 Project Update: Jan thru June 2016 This period represented the start of the monitoring phase of the project. Activities included seagrass mapping, completion of the community interview surveys in the northern portion of the study area and deployment of acoustic loggers. The project is implemented by WCS covering two MPAs – Ankivonjy (139,409 hectares), […]Conservation progressing rapidly in Sahamalaza Marine and Costal UNESCO Biosphere Reserve
August 22, 2016
MG4 Project Update: Jan thru June 2016 In this period, COSAP Sahamalaza worked on the establishment of seven new governance formations across the Sahamalaza Marine and Costal UNESCO Biosphere Reserve (70% of members being fishermen), which would set the conditions for introducing sustainable resource use and management (“dina”) in the area, including dugong and seagrass […]Madagascar partner sights 18 dugongs and works with communities to protect them
August 22, 2016
MG3 Project Update: Jan thru June 2016 C3 worked on optimising the governance structure of the Park – because of the size of the area, remote communities do not have the opportunity to participate in planning and monitoring activities. C3 proposed a division of the Park in three sub-regions, acting as a conduit of information […]Project team begins work with Madagascar national network of LMMAs
August 22, 2016
MG2 Project Update: Jan thru June 2016 The Project is implemented by Blue Ventures and targets the members of the Mihari network of Locally Managed Marine Areas in Madagascar. The network has nearly 150 members and meets regularly every year. Blue Ventures and other Partners of the global GEF Dugong and Seagrass Conservation Project met […]Madagascar communities to establish marine protected areas
August 22, 2016
MG1 Project Udpate: Jan thru June 2016 In this period, Blue Ventures’ team focused on building the capacity of local partners and local communities in six sites – three islands, part of the Barren archipelago (Nosy Lava, Nosy Andrano and Nosy Maroantaly), two sites in Ampasimandroro, Maintirano District and one in Ambalahonko, Ambanja Districit. The […]