Coral Reefs

Protecting Marine Ecosystems in the Philippines Using Green Fins

This project aims to effect change within the diving industry and among local communities through the implementation of the Green Fins approach, a tool for supporting adoption and implementation of best practice.

Raising Community Awareness and Development of Conservation Education for School Children to Support Coral Reef Conservation in Tejakula, Buleleng District, North Bali

The Tejakula reefs sustain a high diversity of reef organisms, which support the livelihoods of coastal people with fisheries or tourism. Threats to the reefs include poor waste management, destructive fishing techniques, and increases in sea temperature, which bleach the corals. A lack of awareness by local stakeholders of the need to conserve coral reefs, has led to a decline in reef health, and a loss of reef species. The project aims to assist coastal communities, local government, youth, school teachers and children in understanding the importance and value of their reefs, and how they can protect them themselves.

CPR Fishing Tours: Community Integration in Coral Reef Protection

The Ecological Foundation (PCEF) created the Partnership for Ecologically Sustainable Costal Areas (PESCA) as a long‐term collaborative effort with multiple partners to balance the continued growth and development of the Punta Cana region with the long‐ term health of the coastal zone, and the needs of local stakeholders. PESCA seeks to achieve integrated coastal management, including water quality monitoring, coral reef and coastal ecosystem protection and restoration, sustainable fisheries management, conservation of endangered species, and development of alternative livelihoods for local fishermen, in order to insure the long‐term health of the Punta Cana coastal area.

Assessing the Effects of Mass Coral Bleaching on an Apex Predator Guild (Groupers) of the Lakshadweep Islands

The aim of my study is to understand the effects of coral degradation and loss of habitat structure, in the wake of the 2010 mass bleaching event on the diversity and distribution of apex ambush predators (groupers) in the Lakshadweep Islands. I also want to look at whether the abundance and distribution of these ambush predators is an important driver in structuring reef fish communities in the Islands, where fishing pressure on the reefs is relatively low.

Capacity Building of the Green Fins Regional Network – The Philippines

Green Fins is a project aiming to conserve the biodiversity of marine ecosystems by raising conservation awareness within the dive and snorkel industry through the implementation of an environmental Code of Conduct.

Traditional Management and Change: Studying the Effectiveness of Marine Resource Management Systems Post-Tsunami in the Nicobar Islands, India

In this study, I plan to document contrasts in pre-tsunami and post-tsunami marine resource-use patterns and management systems, and compare resources and ecological parameters within and outside managed areas to evaluate the effectiveness of traditional management systems in conserving marine resources and habitats.