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Empowering Communities through Coral Restoration: Eco-Sud at Blue Bay Marine Park, Mauritius

By adminSeptember 29, 2025News & Events, Research & Technology

Eco-Sud has led coral-restoration efforts in the Grand Port Fishing Reserve since 2017, building local capacity while regenerating reef ecosystems. Our current UNDP-funded programme at Blue Bay Marine Park (BBMP)—a biodiversity hotspot—places community leadership at the centre of restoration. The aim is not only ecological recovery but also local empowerment and inclusive conservation. Resilient reef-building

Community-led sea turtle rescues and mangrove-habitat insights from central Mozambique’s Save Seascape

By adminSeptember 29, 2025News & Events, Research & Technology

Akashinga’s community-led turtle team is delivering outsized impact in an under-studied part of central Mozambique. The team, who are from communities with the Save Seascape, Sofala, are trained in basic turtle, megafauna, and fisheries monitoring methods. During the latest August spring-tide cycle, the team rescued and released two large green turtles, incinerated two bycatch carcasses

Building Reef Resilience in St Felix VMCA, Mauritius By Coral Garden Conservation, Mauritius

By adminSeptember 29, 2025News & Events, Research & Technology

From January to May 2025, coral reefs in the lagoons of Mauritius experienced bleaching of unprecedented intensity, driven by elevated sea surface temperatures and prolonged calm water conditions, which induced mass expulsion of Symbiodinium and resulted in extensive coral stress, paling, and mortality across large reef sectors. While natural reef sectors in the wild experienced

New online course: Management Effectiveness for Marine Protected Areas

By adminSeptember 29, 2025Capacity Building Opportunities, News & Events

Save the Date for the Reef Resilience Network’s new online course: Management Effectiveness for Marine Protected Areas from November 10th to December 12th, 2025. This four-week mentored course features five self-paced lessons focusing on key steps in the management cycle, including enabling factors for MPA effectiveness, critical success components, and the application of assessments and

The “Fish-to-Market” Program: Rewarding Sustainable Fishing, Transforming Lives

By adminSeptember 29, 2025Boots on the ground and fins in the water, News & Events

The Fish-to-Market program (FTM), supported by Fauna & Flora (with funding from Darwin Initiative) in a collaboration with Kumbatia Seafood, the Northern Rangelands Trust and The Nature Conservancy, addressed the entangled challenges of overfishing and decreasing income faced by small-scale fishers in Lamu county (Kenya). Traditional conservation approaches offered only short-term relief, prompting a need

End violence within Mafia Marine Park

By adminSeptember 29, 2025Boots on the ground and fins in the water, News & Events

Mafia Marine Park carries out its responsibilities across 12 villages and 5 hamlets surrounding the park. As part of its conservation efforts, one of the key responsibilities is to provide education on ending violence for community members and special groups within society. This program aims to reach 17 villages, 20 primary schools, and 4 secondary

Online Coral Reef Restoration Course

By adminSeptember 29, 2025Capacity Building Opportunities, News & Events

The Reef Resilience Network together with the Coral Restoration Consortium, is hosting a five-week mentored Coral Reef Restoration Online Course from September 29 – October 31, 2025. The mentored course will include live webinars and discussion forums with global restoration experts, along with exclusive podcast episodes and videos highlighting stories from the field. The live

Celebration of the Marine Protected Area Day in Mozambique

By adminAugust 6, 2025News & Events, WIOMPAN regional efforts

Likhulu, with support from the UK Planet Fund Ocean, hosted on 4 August, the first event celebrating the MPA Day (http://mpaday.org) in Maputo, Mozambique. MPA Day is celebrated globally on August 1st, and is dedicated to raising awareness about the protection of these ecosystems and their contribution to ocean conservation, sustainable development, and community well-being.

Call for Impact: WIOMPAN Scientific Storytelling Competition 2025

By adminJuly 23, 2025Announcements, News & Events#MPADay #WIOMPAN

Theme: “Our Ocean, Our Stories: How Local Science Is Saving the Sea” Deadline: 30 August 2025 Your Science Has a Story—Let the World Hear It In the early morning light, a ranger in Mozambique logs fewer sea cucumbers on the reef. In Madagascar, youth track mangrove recovery with hand-drawn maps. In Kenya, a fisher records

Hifadhi Blu Workshops Drive Marine Conservation in Western Indian Ocean

By adminJune 23, 2025News & Events, WIOMPAN Country chapter news

From April 23 to May 3, 2025, the Hifadhi Blu Programme hosted its inaugural Collaborative Design Workshops, gathering grantees from across the Western Indian Ocean. Management teams from Kenya, Seychelles, South Africa, and Comoros convened to refine strategies for enhancing Marine Protected Area (MPA) management. Utilizing systems thinking and stakeholder-led design, each site developed customized

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