On July 30th 2020, Environment Ministers from both countries met online to approve the preliminary documents of the project.
Half-a-year after the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic in China, strong impacts have already been observed in the small-scale fisheries sector along the West African coast.
Côte d’Ivoire will soon have its report on the identification and description of Ecologically and Biologically Significant marine Areas at the mouth of the ABY lagoon.
This is a recording of the webinar on the identification of Ecologically or Biologically Significant Marine Areas (EBSAs) held in May 2020.
This is a recording of the Marine Space Planning (MSP) webinar held in May 2020.
Alternative livelihoods strategies and technological improvements are being suggested to reduce the pressures on mangrove forests and to improve the well-being of traditional salt producing women.
The initiative focuses on helping to restore rice fields and mangroves that were once abandoned.
Local communities in coastal areas were supported to face to erosion and coastal pollution.
This solution helped to stop the poaching of sea turtles on the most important nesting beach of Côte d’Ivoire, the beach of Mani-Kablaké located west of the country.
Kawawana (“our local heritage to be preserved by us all”) is an estuarine territory where the ancient governance and management rules –renovated and agreed upon also by the municipal and regional governments – are finally again respected.
