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Beyond frontiers – Engaging the Pakistan Navy in coastal governance
Karachi, Pakistan 14 Nov 2017
Country: Pakistan
Topic: Coastal Governance, Marine Protected Areas, Strategies for Management
Fisheries are the primary livelihood sector for 80% of the coastal population of Pakistan, but this sector contributes to only 0.5% of national GDP and 1% of the country’s labour force. Fish and fishery-related exports yield, on average, a sum of PKR...
Conserving Southeast Asia’s Seas
Bangkok, Thailand 18 Sep 2017
Country: Asia Region
Topic: Capacity Building, Coastal Governance, Knowledge management and communications ...
Nature Lovers return mangroves to Pulau Dua
Pulau Dua, Indonesia 28 Aug 2017
Country: Indonesia
Topic: Coastal Governance, Community Resilence, Integrated Coastal Planning ...
Well-known for its importance as a breeding site for water birds, Pulau Dua was established as a nature reserve in 1937. Unfortunately, in recent decades, much of Pulau Dua’s mangroves were cleared for shrimp farms. With coasts deteriorated, fish th...
When voices are heard in Cu Lao Cham Marine Protected Area
Cu Lao Cham, Viet Nam 24 Aug 2017
Country: Viet Nam
Topic: Civil Society Engagement, Coastal Governance, Marine Protected Areas ...
With a total area of 3.7 hectares (roughly the size of 5 football pitches), the coastline in front and the famous Hai Tang pagoda in back, the Pagoda Field in Cu Lao Cham, Viet Nam is a place of great natural beauty and of religious and historical va...
Photo story: Saving our cetaceans
Goa, India 16 Aug 2017
Country: India
Topic: Capacity Building, Coastal Governance, Integrated Coastal Planning
Drishti lifeguards are first line responders to marine animal stranding, acting as the eyes and ears for the Goa Forest Department.
Piloting aquaculture in the Gulf of Mannar
Vankalai, Mannar, Sri Lanka 16 Aug 2017
Country: Sri Lanka
Topic: Coastal Governance, Community Resilence, Integrated Coastal Planning
As the Mannar region in Sri Lanka recovers from recent conflict, MFF is working with people and organisations to improve resilience through alternative livelihoods such as tourism and aquaculture. Nirooparaj Balachandran, an officer for the National ...
How mangroves got their roots back in East Java
Situbondo Regency, East Java, Indonesia 26 Jul 2017
Country: Indonesia
Topic: Capacity Building, Civil Society Engagement, Climate change ...
Clean air and food on the table. For World Mangroves Day, we're highlighting the ways mangroves offer sustainable solutions to those communities whose livelihoods depend on the resources provided by a resilient coast.
IUCN Statement at The Ocean Conference Plenary
New York, USA 16 Jun 2017
Country: Global
Topic: Climate change, Coastal Governance
This statement, delivered by Dr Cyriaque Sendashonga, IUCN’s Global Director of Policy and Programme at the United Nations Ocean Conference that took place in New York from 5 to 9 June, stresses on the need to address six priority areas to achieve SD...
Pakistan declares its first ever MPA
Astola Island, Balochistan Province, Pakistan 16 Jun 2017
Country: Pakistan
Topic: Coastal Governance, Marine Protected Areas
Astola Island has been designated as Pakistan’s first-ever marine protected area (MPA), bringing Pakistan one step closer to achieving Aichi Biodiversity Target 11. The notification was issued by the Government of Balochistan yesterday, 15 June 2017.
More effective waste management through engaged communities
Mairood, Thailand 15 Jun 2017
Country: Thailand
Topic: Capacity development, Coastal Governance, Monitoring, Learning and Evaluation
To most, it’s just a giant landfill – holding approximately 60,000 tonnes of waste. But to some of the locals of Trat province, the Had Ploy Dang dumping ground, located in the Mairood Sub-district, is known as the ‘golden mountain’. Why? Because, ac...