{"id":4278,"date":"2025-06-23T06:27:30","date_gmt":"2025-06-23T06:27:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wiomsa.org\/wiompan\/?p=4278"},"modified":"2025-06-23T06:27:30","modified_gmt":"2025-06-23T06:27:30","slug":"management-of-voluntary-marine-conservation-areas-in-st-felix-mauritius","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wiomsa.org\/wiompan\/2025\/06\/23\/management-of-voluntary-marine-conservation-areas-in-st-felix-mauritius\/","title":{"rendered":"Management of Voluntary Marine Conservation Areas in St. Felix, Mauritius"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-4277\" src=\"https:\/\/wiomsa.org\/wiompan\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/VMCA-Management.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"223\" height=\"144\" \/>Coral Garden Conservation (CGC) <\/strong>is a non-governmental organization with over a decade of \u00a0experience in both terrestrial and marine conservation initiatives, including lagoon clean ups, mangrove planting, endemic tree reforestation, seagrass and coral conservation, and \u00a0nature-based solutions against coastal erosion.<\/p>\n<p>Aligned with SDG 14, CGC established a <strong>Community-Based Voluntary Marine Conservation \u00a0Area (VMCA) <\/strong>in 2020 at St. Felix, in southern Mauritius. Spanning approximately 40,000 m<sup>2<\/sup>, \u00a0the VMCA was created with the support of local fishers and community members and \u00a0primarily comprises healthy coral reefs interspersed with sparse seagrass patches.<\/p>\n<p>A recent biodiversity inventory recorded <strong>80 coral species, 3 seagrass species, and over 90 fish \u00a0species <\/strong>thriving within the VMCA. To foster community stewardship and management, CGC \u00a0runs regular awareness campaigns aimed at encouraging local engagement and broader \u00a0public support for marine conservation. CGC works in close collaboration with the Ministry of \u00a0Agro-Industry, Food Security, Blue Economy &amp; Fisheries to ensure proper management and \u00a0conservation of the site.<\/p>\n<p>By Dr. Chitra Ramphul &amp; Douvesh Kallychurn \u2013 Coral Garden Conservation<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Coral Garden Conservation (CGC) is a non-governmental organization with over a decade of \u00a0experience in both terrestrial and marine conservation initiatives, including lagoon clean ups, mangrove planting, endemic tree reforestation, seagrass and coral conservation, and \u00a0nature-based solutions against coastal erosion. Aligned with SDG 14, CGC established a Community-Based Voluntary Marine Conservation \u00a0Area (VMCA) in 2020<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/wiomsa.org\/wiompan\/2025\/06\/23\/management-of-voluntary-marine-conservation-areas-in-st-felix-mauritius\/\" class=\"more-link themebutton\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4277,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[322,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4278","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-boots-on-the-ground","category-news-events"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wiomsa.org\/wiompan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4278","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=4278"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wiomsa.org\/wiompan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4278\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4281,"href":"https:\/\/wiomsa.org\/wiompan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4278\/revisions\/4281"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wiomsa.org\/wiompan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4277"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wiomsa.org\/wiompan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4278"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wiomsa.org\/wiompan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4278"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wiomsa.org\/wiompan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4278"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}