Upcoming Webinar: Climate-Smart Planning for MPAs
Register to join us on June 5, 2025
Transforming Coral Reef Monitoring with MERMAID Webinar
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.
30×30 and Beyond: Reaching Effective MPA Management Webinar
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.
Understanding MPA Enforcement: Practical Strategies for Managers Webinar
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.
MPA Finance: First Steps for Marine Managers Webinar
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.
Supporting Sustainable Livelihoods: Steps for Conservation Practitioners Webinar
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How to Apply Coral Reef Connectivity Models to Reef Management Webinar
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Addressing Wastewater Pollution: A Step-by-Step Guide for Conservation and Sanitation Practitioners Webinar
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.
Preparing, Monitoring, and Responding to Coral Bleaching in the Western Indian Ocean Webinar
Over the past three years, coral reefs have experienced a temporary refuge in the La Niña phase. However, the tide is turning as we face an unfolding El Niño event, ushering in warmer conditions that pose a renewed threat to these fragile ecosystems. During...Ocean Wastewater Pollution Learning Exchange
Continue the conversations about wastewater management topics via the digital whiteboards
Good for Business and Good for Reefs: How to Engage the Tourism Sector in Reef Restoration Webinar
Topics included sustainable funding, creating marketable experiences, and education.
New Guide for the Tourism Industry Explores How to Accelerate Coral Restoration in the Caribbean Webinar
Best practices and resources for restoration implementation for tourism operators
Seaweed Farming in Zanzibar: Empowering Women and Improving Sustainability Webinar
Recently launched community-empowerment and environmental training program that helps address challenges to farming seaweed sustainably in Zanzibar
Developing Sustainable Seaweed Aquaculture in Belize Webinar
Sustainable seaweed aquaculture, when farmed well, can relieve pressure on wild stock fishery resources and provides numerous ecological, social, political, and economic benefits.
Applying Structured Decision Making to Inform Reef Management Decisions Webinar
April 25 at 6:00 pm EDT (UTC -4). Speakers from RRAP Modelling and Decision Support Sub-Program will share several examples of how structured decision making has been used to progress several areas of strategic reef management.
Climate Tradeoffs of Wastewater Management Strategies Webinar
April 20, 2022 at 2:00 pm EDT/8:00 am HST. Experts from ERG will share findings from their recent research which involved synthesizing data from global sources and models for wastewater management to increase understanding of global opportunities for greenhouse gas mitigation.
Predicting and Responding to Coral Bleaching in the Western Indian Ocean Webinar
Reef managers have important roles to play before, during, and after coral bleaching events.
How Insurance Can Support Reef Resilience Webinar
Natural infrastructure, such as coral reefs and mangrove forests, provide numerous ecosystem services to people. Healthy coral reefs can reduce wave energy by up to 97%, and large areas of mangroves can reduce storm surge heights by up to 75%. Coastal ecosystems like...
Restoration Techniques for Non-Branching Corals: Lessons from Around the World Webinar
Join the Coral Restoration Consortium’s Field-Based Propagation Working Group and expert coral restoration practitioners from around the world for an introduction to restoration methods for a variety of non-branching coral species.
