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Can standardized and participatory research establish a baseline for the conservation of dugong? Symposium: How to investigate long-lived organisms within 3-year funding cycles? ESA18 - 28th November 2018 Brisbane, Australia The Dugong &

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Can standardized and participatory research establish a baseline for the conservation of dugong?

Symposium: How to investigate long-lived organisms within 3-year funding cycles? ESA18 - 28th November 2018 Brisbane, Australia

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The Dugong & Seagrass Conservation Project

  • Objective: to enhance the effectiveness of conservation of dugongs and their

seagrass ecosystems across the Indian and Pacific Ocean basins

  • Timeframe: 2015 to 2018
  • GEF-5 support: US $5.88M
  • 8 countries: Mozambique, Madagascar, Sri Lanka, Malaysia, Indonesia, Timor-

Leste, Solomon Islands and Vanuatu

  • 30+ Partners implementing 42 local projects 120+ locations
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Map of Project Locations by Country

Based on the CMS Dugong MoU map of range states

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Research Component

  • Standardized methods and tools
  • comparability and consistency
  • Money and time efficiency

Allows for tracking trends

  • Seeks local communities' input
  • Allows for building local

capacities

  • Technical advice by UN

Environment CMS Dugong MoU advisers

The tools and approaches:

  • CMS Dugong Catch/ By-catch

Questionnaire

  • Seagrass-Watch
  • Traditional Ecological

Knowledge

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CMS Dugong catch/ bycatch questionnaire

  • Questionnaire was adapted for

Vanuatu

  • In-country training conducted by

member

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CMS Dugong technical Group

  • VESS conducted a training for

the Solomon Islands Partners.

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CMS Dugong catch/ bycatch questionnaire

Vanuatu

  • 537 interviews conducted on 32

islands throughout Vanuatu.

  • Dugongs are sighted

throughout the archipelago in most of the major island groups in Vanuatu.

  • 849 historic sightings were

recorded

  • 20 dugong hotspots identified
  • 6 hotspots identified as high

priority for conservation efforts. Solomon Islands

  • 297 interviews with 47

communities in 6 provinces.

  • More than half of the

respondents indicated sightings

  • f dugongs during the past year
  • The opportunistic kill of dugongs

still occurs either for food or commercial gain.

  • A small number of people still

actively hunt dugongs.

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Dugong Hotspots in Vanuatu

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  • you are not allowed to sell, buy or export a live or dead dugong
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Seagrass-Watch - Vanuatu

  • Training workshop was held

in Vanuatu for Vanuatu and Solomon Islands project partners.

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Seagrass-Watch - Vanuatu

  • Permanent monitoring sites identified in four locations in Vanuatu.
  • Eight monitoring events have taken place.
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Seagrass-Watch – Solomon Islands

  • Seagrass mapping conducted across seven sites
  • Seagrass monitoring integrated into LMMA resource monitoring

annual work plan.

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Challenges

  • Lack of baseline conservation and

socio-economic information

  • Lack of awareness of the

importance of seagrasses and dugongs

  • Lack of policy frameworks and

capacity for policy enforcement

  • Lack of capacity and personnel to

implement projects and enforce regulations and laws.

  • Remoteness of the study areas
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Enabling conditions

  • Team of technical

advisors

  • Toolkit
  • Central coordination
  • Inception workshop
  • Annual meetings
  • Institutions’ support
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Where to next?

  • Project Closing Meeting in February 2019
  • Further collaborative research
  • Vanuatu – research is continuing, in collaboration with

Murdoch University Marine Megafauna Research Unit, to survey dugong hotspots using unmanned aerial vehicles.

  • Solomon Islands – dugong and seagrass maps currently

under development

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Vanuatu Fisheries Department

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THANK YOU!

Contact Information:

  • Vanuatu

Christina Shaw, CEO, Vanuatu Environmental Science Society, vess@vanuatuconservation.org

  • Solomon Islands

Alec Hughes, CEO, Coastal Marine Management, alec@c-m-2.com

  • Global Project

Maya Bankova-Todorova, Project Coordinator, Mohamed bin Zayed Species Conservation Fund, mbankova@mbzfund.org