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ADB's CTI Southeast Asia Project Kicks off with Scoping Workshop
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The ADB CTI Southeast Asia Team at the inception workshop Photo: Primex
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The Coastal and Marine Resources Management in the Coral Triangle: Southeast Asia (CTI Southeast Asia) project held its Project Scoping, Visioning, and Team building Workshop at Astoria Hotel in Manila, Philippines on August 16, 2012. The activity was designed to help the consultant team, support staff, and associates understand the project's objectives, strategies, and interventions. ADB's CTI Southeast Asia Project aims to improve the management of coastal and marine resources in the Sulu Sulawesi Marine Ecoregion (SSME) priority seascape within the Coral Triangle. This technical assistance will support the introduction of more effective management of coastal and marine resources, especially those associated with coral reef ecosystems. The project will build their resilience in a period of increased threats arising from human-induced and climate change impacts, thereby maintaining ecosystem integrity and productivity and ensuring the improved socioeconomic status of coastal communities. MORE
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Marine Survey Finds High Biodiversity Concentration and Coral Reef Resilience in Timor-Leste
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A boy collects shells at the Nino Konis Santana National Park in Timor-Leste Photo: Matthew Abbot/CTSP
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A team of six scientists and two videographers conducted the first ever extensive marine survey along the northern coast of Timor-Leste from August 14-24, 2012 and found seven potentially new marine species and extremely high concentrations of biodiversity with 734 fish species and 360 species of corals recorded. The survey also found that Timor-Leste's waters are at least 2-3 degrees Celsius cooler than neighboring areas making its marine ecosystems more resilient to climate change impacts and serving as a well-placed refuge for marine species in the Coral Triangle threatened by rising sea temperatures. MORE
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Coastal Communities in Timor-Leste Learn to Adapt to Climate Change
The residents of two Timor-Leste communities, Batugade and Atauro, will soon be able to prepare their respective communities for the potential impacts of climate change on their own. The Australian Government, working with The WorldFish Center, is helping Timor-Leste coastal communities learn to assess how vulnerable their communities are to climate change and also helping the people of Batugade and Atauro develop the necessary plans to assist their communities adapt to climate pressures.
The project is designed to help improve climate adaptation programs in Timor-Leste by identifying coastal communities and ecosystems vulnerable to climate change, and making climate-adaptation efforts and funding more strategic and targeted. MORE
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Solomon Islands Implements New Tool to Improve Marine Protected Area Management
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Workshop participants in Honiara
Photo: Marthen Welly/CTC
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Twenty five representatives from community, government and non-government organizations from the Solomon Islands took a significant step to address the Coral Triangle Initiative (CTI) Regional and National Plan of Action goals of ensuring effective management of marine protected areas (MPA) by implementing a new tool adapted to local conditions. The MPA Management Effectiveness Assessment Tool was introduced at a workshop on August 1-3, 2012 in Honiara and supports a key goal of the CTI which is to ensure that 20% of the Coral Triangle is placed under protection and effectively managed by 2020. The tool enables communities and marine resource managers to improve the management of an MPA using biophysical, social, and governance factors. It is being translated into the local language, enhanced to include local indicators, and rolled out between August to November 2012. MORE
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Australia Supports Mangrove Training in Papua New Guinea
The Australian Government is supporting the Papua New Guinea is to support the Centre for Locally Managed Areas, a member-owned organization that aims to build the capacity of its member communities to manage their own marine areas-which range from seagrass beds, coral reefs, turtle nesting beaches, to mangroves.
The center delivers a number of community-based training and mentoring initiatives, including a mangrove nursery and planting training program. Through the center, nine people from three coastal provinces across Papua New Guinea took part in the mangrove regeneration program run by the University of Papua New Guinea during March 2012.
All skills and knowledge gained under the program are designed to be taken back and applied in each participant's local community. With the participants coming from all across the PNG-from West New Britain in the east, Manus province in the north and the National Capital District in the south-it is hoped the program can help spread these marine conservation and management skills gradually across these communities. MORE |
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Solomon Islands' CTI NCC Launches TV Campaign
A television public service announcement (PSA) to increase awareness about marine resource conservation began airing in the Solomon Islands in August 2012. The TV campaign is aimed at politicians, decision makers, and opinion leaders living in urban areas and will be expanded in 2013 to include radio pieces that will reach out to rural communities. The piece is the first of a three-part series that will be rolled out this year highlighting the richness of the Solomon Islands' marine resources, the threats they face, and the programs being implemented to address these issues through the Coral Triangle Initiative. The PSA can be viewed through this link. |
Animated Video on Tuna Fishing in the Coral TriangleWWF has released a new animated video promoting sustainable tuna fishing in the Coral Triangle. This visually engaging animation presents the issue of juvenile tuna fishing in the Coral Triangle and the need for a more equitable distribution of tuna benefits to help protect this nursery of the seas. Check out the video by following this link.
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