This video highlights some of the processes, partnerships, and successes of the BIEM Initiative. The BIEM Initiative was KRA 5 of the Pacific European Union Marine Partnership (PEUMP) programme funded by the European Union and the Government of SwedenCall Number: [EL]Physical Description: 14:08
The Locally-Managed Marine Area (LMMA) Network is a group of practitioners involved in various community-based marine conservation projects around the globe who have joined together to learn how to improve our management efforts. Call Number: VF 7243,[EL]Physical Description: 42p. : ill., maps, tables ; 30 x 22 cm.
Life in the sea is diverse, exciting, good to eat and provides a myriad of services to humanity, many of which we barely even comprehend. However, human activities now pose serious threats to the oceans biodiversity and their capacity to support productive fisheries, recreation, water purification and other services we take for granted. These threats come at a time when we still know little about the life that exists in the sea. Even species we have been catching and eating for hundreds of years such as cod, tuna or halibut, have unknown secrets.
Regardless of where we live, all of us depend upon healthy ocean ecosystems: either as
a source of food or revenue, or as a key shaper and regulator of climate and weather.
This dependency and the need to embrace sustainable development led nations of the
world to agree to a series of high-level political commitments for marine conservation
and marine protected areas. The World Summit on Sustainable Development, the 5th
World Parks Congress, the Convention on Biological Diversity and the G8 Group of
The overharvesting of marine resources is posing a great threat to communities in Solomon Islands today and, in recent decades, resultant shortages of fish have rapidly changed methods of fishing in the country’s waters.
The purpose of this section is to provide a management context to reef restoration. We assume some familiarity with what coral reefs are. A key point we make is that reef restoration should be treated as just one option within an integrated coastal management (ICM) planning agenda for a stretch of coast. Too often, enthusiastic proponents of active restoration omit to consider the wider context and factors outside their control which may jeopardise their efforts.
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Call Number: 551.6 EDW [EL]
ISBN/ISSN: 978-1-921317-00-2
The objective of this project is to formalize the experiences,
outcomes and lessons learned from previous GEF projects,
as well as major non-GEF initiatives involving coral reefs and
associated ecosystems. The project aims to comprehensively
identify, analyze, and translate lessons into good practices
and information resources, and then disseminate this
information globally for use in future project design and
development. Based on its history of supporting coral reef
biodiversity, management and sustainable development,
A group of people in Morobe, opposed to the use of the deep sea tailing placement (DSTP) system of waste disposal in the Wafi-Golpu copper and gold project, wants the Government to listen to them.
