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Scenarios for the future of the Northern Mozambique Channel
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, ...
Read more »Northern Mozambique Channel
The Northern Mozambique Channel (NMC) lies between northwest Madagascar, northern Mozambique and southern Tanzania, enclosing the islands of the Comoros Archipelago, and remote islands strung along the ...
Read more »WIO GCRMN report 2017
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 ...
Read more »Ocean Health Index (OHI)
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, ...
Read more »International Year of the Reef 2018
2018 has officially been declared as the 3rd International Year of the Reef (IYOR2018) by the International Coral Reef Initiative (ICRI). IYOR is a global effort which aims at protecting and conserving ...
Read more »Locally Managed Marine Areas
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. ...
Read more »Locally Managed Marine Areas in Africa (Film)
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 ...
Read more »Reef fish assemblages in the WIO
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 ...
Read more »Sharks
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 ...
Read more »Spawning aggregations
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 ...
Read more »Decadal trends in CPUE in Kenya
Kenya’s population has more than doubled in 30 years. From 18 million in the late 1970s it is set to reach 55 million by 2050. Finite marine fish populations cannot sustain this demographic pressure. ...
Read more »Marine Spatial Atlas for the Western Indian Ocean
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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