{"id":3384,"date":"2023-05-13T07:13:17","date_gmt":"2023-05-13T07:13:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wiomsa.org\/wiompan\/?p=3384"},"modified":"2023-05-17T07:15:35","modified_gmt":"2023-05-17T07:15:35","slug":"adapting-to-climate-change-and-improving-infrastructure-for-better-management-effectiveness-of-a-world-class-marine-protected-area-cousin-island-special-reserve","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wiomsa.org\/wiompan\/2023\/05\/13\/adapting-to-climate-change-and-improving-infrastructure-for-better-management-effectiveness-of-a-world-class-marine-protected-area-cousin-island-special-reserve\/","title":{"rendered":"Adapting to climate change and improving infrastructure for better management effectiveness of a world-class marine protected area \u2013 Cousin Island Special Reserve"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-3385\" src=\"https:\/\/wiomsa.org\/wiompan\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/cousin-erosion-300x165.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"165\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wiomsa.org\/wiompan\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/cousin-erosion-300x165.jpg 300w, https:\/\/wiomsa.org\/wiompan\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/cousin-erosion-1024x562.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/wiomsa.org\/wiompan\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/cousin-erosion-768x422.jpg 768w, https:\/\/wiomsa.org\/wiompan\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/cousin-erosion.jpg 1080w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>Cousin Island is<strong><b>\u00a0<\/b><\/strong>a world-renowned nature reserve hosting a spectacular array of diverse marine and endemic species. Not only does it host the world\u2019s rarest bird, the Seychelles Warbler, it is also one of the three places in the world where female hawksbill turtles lay eggs during the day. It is considered to have one of the best-restored island forests in Africa and hosts a very large population of endemic lizards. The island reserve is essential to the sustainability of small-scale fisheries and protects sea cucumbers of commercial interest.\u00a0 It was the first integrated landscape and seascape no-take reserve in Africa and the Indian Ocean and the reserve\u2019s rangers are passionate about protecting this slice of paradise from negative human-induced impacts. However, currently the rangers are battling more than delinquents as increasing erosion is endangering their headquarters. Nature Seychelles is calling for support as they desperately need to build new infrastructure as part of a climate change adaption strategy that can be viewed\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dropbox.com\/s\/znafrd8dbfae4xd\/CISR%20climate%20adapatation%20for%20management%20effectiveness%20Nature%20Seychelles.doc?dl=0\"><u>here<\/u><\/a>. For more information on how you can assist these resilient MPA practitioners, please contact Dr Nirmal Shah,\u00a0<a href=\"mailto:nirmal@natureseychelles.org\"><u>nirmal@natureseychelles.org<\/u><\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cousin Island is\u00a0a world-renowned nature reserve hosting a spectacular array of diverse marine and endemic species. Not only does it host the world\u2019s rarest bird, the Seychelles Warbler, it is also one of the three places in the world where female hawksbill turtles lay eggs during the day. It is considered to have one of<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/wiomsa.org\/wiompan\/2023\/05\/13\/adapting-to-climate-change-and-improving-infrastructure-for-better-management-effectiveness-of-a-world-class-marine-protected-area-cousin-island-special-reserve\/\" class=\"more-link themebutton\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3385,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[119,304,303,95],"class_list":["post-3384","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-events","tag-climate-change","tag-climate-change-adaptation-strategy","tag-cousin-island","tag-nature-seychelles"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wiomsa.org\/wiompan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3384","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wiomsa.org\/wiompan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wiomsa.org\/wiompan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wiomsa.org\/wiompan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wiomsa.org\/wiompan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3384"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wiomsa.org\/wiompan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3384\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3386,"href":"https:\/\/wiomsa.org\/wiompan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3384\/revisions\/3386"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wiomsa.org\/wiompan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3385"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wiomsa.org\/wiompan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3384"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wiomsa.org\/wiompan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3384"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wiomsa.org\/wiompan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3384"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}