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.
Tracking the green turtles’ 1,000-kilometre migration from Guinea-Bissau to the lush seagrass meadows in Mauritania
This report synthesizes current knowledge of seagrass ecosystems, highlights their importance, and provides policy recommendations.
An informative poster to easily identify the three main species of seagrasses found in West Africa.
This initial assessment is a perception from the region’s stakeholders of the various ecosystem services and benefits that seagrasses provide.
The three final national trainings were successfully held in Senegal, Cape Verde, and Mauritania in February 2020. The ResilienSEA project started its series of national trainings on Seagrass Species Identification, Mapping and Monitoring in West Africa in Guinea in late…
https://vimeo.com/390752530 Melissa Ndure didn’t know much about seagrass before her trip to Senegal to take part in a workshop with the ResilienSEA project. In fact, the senior environment officer with Sierra Leone’s Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) says she was more familiar with seaweed. …
We follow MSc. student Omar Sanneh during the capacity building workshop, where the Gambian national team discovered seagrass meadows around the Bijol Islands. From January 20-24 2020 in The Gambia, the ResilienSEA project held its fourthnational training on seagrass species…
