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Enabling the people of Tristan to implement the CBD in the marine environment

 

Key Facts

FUNDING SCHEME ICON
FUNDING SCHEME
Post-Project
VALUE ICON
VALUE
£75,971
WHERE ICON
WHERE
St Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha, South Africa

Summary

The recent stranding of an oilrig on Tristan has focused local and international attention on the importance and vulnerability of marine life around the Tristan islands and the paucity of information in this area.The main objective of this post-project is to enable and encourage the people of Tristan to make informed decisions leading to sustainable use of Tristan’s marine environment. The project will increase knowledge on the marine environment by developing an enhanced and updated database, based on both existing information and new data from previously unsurveyed areas. It will also strengthen the capacity of Tristanians to obtain marine biological information, by training them in underwater recording skills, including monitoring for alien species. A range of interpretive materials is planned to raise local and international awareness. We hope that the project will stimulate new income-generating activities on the island.The aim of the original Darwin project was to increase the control of Tristanians over the conservation and sustainable use of their biodiversity. However, the focus was on terrestrial wildlife, with only opportunistic marine work. This post-project proposes to extend the objectives of the original project underwater, by building on successful preliminary diving surveys undertaken around Tristan in 2004/05.
 
Status Completed
Reference EIDPO023
Round 15
Start 01/05/2007
End 30/06/2010

Project Leader


Project Partners
Otago Polytechnic, Gov of Tristan da Cunha, University of Cape Town


Regions
UKOT, Sub-Saharan Africa

Biomes
COASTAL, MARINE, MARINE COASTAL, ISLAND BIODIVERSITY

Production
FISHERIES

Threats To Biodiversity
POLLUTION, INVASIVE SPECIES

Broad Approches
COMMUNITY MANAGEMENT, GENERAL MEASURES, SUSTAINABLE USE, ECOSYSTEM APPROACH, ECOSYSTEM CONSERVATION

Specific Tools
NBSAP, MONITORING, CEPA, RESEARCH TRAINING

Countries
St Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha, South Africa

Project Outputs
1. Knowledge of the marine environment on Tristan is enhanced 2. Technical capacity to survey the marine environment is strengthened on Tristan 3. Awareness of the marine environment on Tristan is raised locally and internationally 4. Monitoring of threats to biodiversity and marine resources from settlement of alien species and other impacts initiated 5. New sustainable income-generating activities based on the marine environment are developed


Documents:
Download: Article - EIDPO023 AR1 Ann 5 DIVE Tristan article - 12/11/2008

Download: Article - EIDPO023 AR1 ANN 6 Website Article - 12/11/2008

Download: Map - EIDPO023 AR1 Ann 3 Map of Tristan da Cunha Group - 12/11/2008

Download: Log Frame - EIDPO023 AR1 Ann 2 - logframe - 12/11/2008

Download: Half Year Report - EIDPO023 HY3 - 27/09/2010

Download: Annual Report - EIDPO023 AR2 - 16/11/2009

Download: Half Year Report - EIDPO023 HY2 - 07/10/2009

Download: Annual Report - EIDPO023 AR1 - 12/11/2008

Download: Half Year Report - EIDPO23 HY1 - 12/11/2008

Download: Application Form - EIDPO023 App - 12/11/2008