Louis Pille-Schneider – ResilienSEA

Seagrass beds integrated in Cabo Verde’s NDCs

Cabo Verde is the 7th country to update its nationally determined contributions (NDCs) in 2021, with the particularity of integrating seagrass beds in the efforts to reduce its national emissions and adapt to the effects of climate change.

ResilienSEA Scholarship Two Years On

A lot has changed since November 2019, when the ResilienSEA project awarded four seagrass research scholarships to master’s students. However, the recipients’ determination to complete their programs and protect seagrass ecosystems has not.

The Gambia’s national implementation team holds a seagrass training for over thirty journalists

The Gambia’s National Implementation Team organized a day-long training on January 7th for over thirty journalists from the print and online press.

Panorama Solution: Participatory maritime surveillance within the Banc d’Arguin National Park

The Banc d'Arguin National Park (PNBA) is one of the largest national parks in Africa. The importance of the park in terms of biodiversity and cultural heritage requires guaranteeing its socio-ecological integrity. Aware of this situation, the PNBA managers and the Delegation for Fisheries Surveillance and Control at Sea (DSPCM) – now the Mauritanian Coast Guard (GCM) – set up a participatory maritime surveillance system in 1999 with the Imraguen, a local community of desert fishermen.

Panorama Solution: Participatory seagrass mapping for biodiversity conservation and sustainable fisheries

In the Joal-Fadiouth MPA (Senegal), community-based approaches such as participatory seagrass mapping enhance the legitimacy of conservation actions by drawing upon local fisherfolk knowledge and help raising awareness about ecosystem interrelations that are important to commercial fisheries and to the communities that depend on them.

The third ResilienSEA National Seagrass Species Identification, Mapping and Monitoring Training held in Sierra Leone

In Sierra Leone, the ResilienSEA project continues its series of capacity development workshops in the third out of seven West African pilot countries to wrap up 2019. From 9-11 December 2019, ResilienSEA held its third national training on seagrasses in…

The first ResilienSEA National Seagrass Species Identification, Mapping and Monitoring Training held in Guinea

The workshop is the first in a series of national seagrass species identification, mapping and monitoring trainings held in the seven ResilienSEA pilot countries. From October 28th to November 1st 2019, the first ResilienSEA national training on seagrass species identification,…