In the face of climate change, sea level rise, and coastal erosion, the Environmental Protection Agency – Sierra Leone is conducting vulnerability assessments and stakeholder consultations in the country.
In a tourist-free world, decision-makers need to critically reconsider the potential of ecotourism as a financing mechanism for conservation.
The approval of the SoME report constitutes an important milestone towards enhancing Integrated Ocean Management in the country and in West Africa.
This is a recording of the Marine Space Planning (MSP) webinar held in May 2020.
As part of the implementation of the Integrated Marine and Coastal Zone Management project (GIZMaC), the State of the Marine Environment (SoME) was assessed in Benin.
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. The experts involved are Dr. Taibou Ba from the Centre de Suivi Ecologique (CSE) in Dakar, Senegal, and Marguerite Kouadio from the Centre Ivoirien AntiPollution (CIAPOL).
This is a recording of the Marine Space Planning (MSP) webinar held in May 2020.