Participatory seagrass mapping for biodiversity conservation and sustainable fisheries
In West Africa, marine and coastal conservation is crucial. Community-driven MPAs like Joal-Fadiouth empower local communities and benefit ecosystems.
Using the IMET to identify priorities for management in two protected areas in Boa Vista, Cabo Verde
Cape Verde’s biodiverse protected areas face resource and data challenges. Fundação Tartaruga, with MAA-BV and BIOPAMA, works to protect them.
Contribution to improving the resilience to coastal erosion in Togo
Local communities in coastal areas were supported to face to erosion and coastal pollution.
Mangrove conservation, climate change and food security
The initiative focuses on helping to restore rice fields and mangroves that were once abandoned.
Sea turtle conservation in Ivory Coast
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 community heritage area: good life recovered through conservation
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.
Community Mangrove Restoration within the Muni-Pomadze Ramsar Site, Ghana
The project replanted mangroves in 7.5ha out of 30ha of degraded areas along the shore of the Muni lagoon in Ghana.
Rehabilitation of coastal areas through agroforestry reforestation
PAEDE (Program to support Arable and Livestock Farmers for Local Development) formed the local community in sustainable techniques of agronomy and aims to raise the political, administrative and traditional awareness.
Alternatives to mangrove degradation and improvement of women well-being
OPED is transforming the local fishing industry by providing energy-efficient alternatives to cutting down trees to smoke fish, a primary driver of mangrove forest loss in the region.
AfricaSaw – Alert network for the protection of the West African sawfishes
The solution allows for creating a rapid alert network in the event of sawfish captures, to harmonize and coordinate responses that aim at their protection in the West African sub-region.