Improving management of marine and coastal biodiversity in the Pacific Islands Ramsar and partners took part in a fact-finding and consultation mission in the Republic of Kiribati in December 2013, for the GIZ-SPREP-IUCN project on Marine and Coastal Biodiversity Management in the Pacific Island Countries (MACBIO). Vainuupo Jungblut, Ramsar Officer for Oceania (ROO) based at SPREP in Samoa, represented Ramsar and SPREP at the meeting. The mission team also included officials from IUCN Oceania and GIZ. Kiribati is one of five Pacific island countries participating in the project, which is designed to improve the management of marine and coastal biodiversity through three activities: • economic evaluation of the ecosystem services provided by intact coastal and marine wetland habitats including mangroves, seagrass and coral reefs ; • development of a spatial planning framework to align multiple resource uses across the country’s exclusive economic zone (EEZ), the offshore area over which it has particular rights; • dissemination of best practice in the management of marine protected areas.
Posted on: Tue, 28 Jan 2014 16:06:15 +0000
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