The Network provided training to 25 marine managers, planners, and other staff from the Hawai’i Division of Aquatic Resources. The participants, representing five islands, learned about strategic communication and strategized how to engage Hawai’i residents in the new community-centered engagement process to shape and inform the management of marine resources through the Holomua Marine Initiative.
The Network co-hosted a workshop with Yayasan Konservasi Alam Nusantara (YKAN) and key partners at Sorong in the Papua region of Indonesia to strengthen capacity for locally-led efforts to conduct climate-smart reef restoration activities.
By simplifying field data collection and analysis, MERMAID enhances workflow efficiency and enables rapid assessment of reef health. We invite you to view the recording and explore MERMAID, which now helps more than 2,000 scientists from 70+ organizations across 46 countries to collect, analyze, and act on coral reef data.
The discussion highlighted a key challenge: expanding MPAs has led to strained management capacity, funding limitations, and the critical need for capacity building to ensure effective conservation.
During the Reef Futures 2024 Symposium, participants connected with coral restoration practitioners, researchers, and resource managers from around the world to learn how to apply the latest techniques, technologies, and science to their restoration work in Anguilla.
This new course is free and globally accessible, consisting of four lessons which take about five hours to complete.
Speakers provided an overview of monitoring, control, surveillance, and enforcement, shared insights on practical MCS&E strategies, and discussed an application of these strategies in the Bahamas.
Participants in American Samoa learned about the Network’s strategic communication planning process and reviewed the goals and objectives in the 2019-2024 CRAG Education & Outreach Strategic Communication Plan. They identified potentially new goals, and prioritized the unfinished education and outreach goals and objectives remaining in the plan.
Speakers provided an overview of the MPA Finance Toolkit and share insights on practical steps managers can take to explore financing options for their own sites. Allen Cedras, Chief Executive Officer of the Seychelles Parks and Gardens Authority (SPGA), drew on his experience as a site-level manager and expertise in MPA financing to provide a real-world example of MPA financing in practice.
In July 2024, The Nature Conservancy in Africa hosted Reef Restoration Initiatives in the Western Indian Ocean for Lesson Sharing, Capacity-building and Networking, a three-day regional workshop on Unguja Island, Zanzibar.
First-stop resource for marine managers & practitioners interested in learning about sustainable financing options for their marine protected areas.
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The Reef Resilience Network and The Nature Conservancy in Africa are working together to scale-up effective coral reef restoration activities in the Western Indian Ocean by building knowledge and skills of the marine managers and practitioners leading this work.
Thank you to the 170+ Network members who completed our survey! We will be spending the next few months exploring ways to incorporate your feedback into our resources and activities.
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Access the recording and resources, including A Guide for Integrated Conservation and Sanitation Programs and Approaches. This webinar is part of our ongoing Ocean Sewage Series.
The Network hosted a mentored version of the Resilience-Based Management Online Course for managers and practitioners in Florida. The objective of the training was to develop a shared understanding of resilience-based management (RBM) for Florida managers and practitioners to support integration of resilience concepts into existing management plans and efforts.
Five case studies and seven article summaries.
RRN provided strategic communication training to 23 managers and practitioners from three Resilient Reefs Initiative sites: Palau, New Caledonia, and Belize, to ensure that delivery of their RRI-funded reef conservation projects would have the greatest impact.
