Climate-Smart Management Planning Moriah Harbour Cay & Lucayan National Parks – Bahamas, 2024

In October 2024, 17 marine managers, planners, and administrators from the Bahamas National Trust (BNT), participated in the Climate Smart Management Planning Moriah Harbour Cay National Park (MHCNP) and Lucayan National Park (LNP) Workshop in Nassau, Bahamas. This 4-day workshop focused on completing climate-smart updates to the park management plans. Participants identified key climate change and non-climate threats and impacts that affect priority conservation features in these parks. Facilitators worked with participants as they updated goals and objectives and other sections of the management plans, and developed management strategies for inclusion in the updated management plans. This workshop was the third in a series of workshops to update management plans to be climate-smart.

Staff, partners, and hosts included: Annick Cros (TNC), Cherie Wagner (TNC), Joel Johnsson (RRN Consultant), Jane Israel (RRN Consultant), Meghan Gombos (RRN Consultant), Jewel Beneby (TNC Northern Caribbean Program), Trueranda Cox (TNC Northern Caribbean Program), Ellsworth Weir (BNT), and Alyssa Bastian (BNT).

This training was organized by the Reef Resilience Network with support from The Nature Conservancy Northern Caribbean Program and funded through the BahamaReefs Programme, a long-term initiative led by The Nature Conservancy in partnership with the Global Fund for Coral Reefs.