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.
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.
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.
At Laboma Beach, near Accra (Ghana), the turtle laying season has given way to massive amounts of plastic waste.
In the Joal-Fadiouth Marine Protected Area in Senegal, the local fisherfolk community battles against resource depleting commercial illegal fishing.
From 3-7 February 2020, participants from Ivory Coast, Mauritania, São Tomé and Príncipe, Senegal and Togo gathered in São Tomé for a Blue Planning in Practice (BPiP) training course.