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Presenting the Ocean Governance project at Sustainable Ocean Initiative workshop for East, South and South-East Asia
The EU Ocean Governance project was delighted to take part in the capacity-building workshop of the Sustainable Ocean Initiative (SOI) for East, South and South-East Asia, held on 5-8 September 2023 in Seoul, Republic of Korea. The SOI is a global platform created in...
Marine Mammals Management Toolkit expands towards the Pacific Ocean
In a recent webinar organised collaboratively by the Ocean Governance Project’s Marine Mammals Twinning (MMT) and the Pacific Islands Marine Protected Area Community (PIMPAC), experts and Marine Protected Area (MPA) managers from the Pacific convened to discuss the...
Bali workshop: Coral Triangle countries exchange experiences in coral reef restoration, and consider creating MPA manager network
Following the success of two prior Learning Exchanges organised by the Ocean Governance project, our partners in the Coral Triangle Initiative on Coral Reefs, Fisheries, and Food Security (CTI-CFF) in Southeast Asia proposed to co-organise a third such event, designed...
News from the restoration sites in Southeast Asia
The EU Ocean Governance project has been busy in recent months supporting ecosystem restoration in collaboration with local communities and private sector partners in the Sulu Sulawesi Seascape, a Southeast Asia region of the Coral Triangle. As part of the consortium,...
New Jersey hosts resilience ‘training of trainers’ event for MPAs in US mid-Atlantic states
MPA managers from the US states of New Jersey, Delaware, Virginia, and Maryland took part in our Resilience partnership workshop in April, the second ‘training of trainers’ events on the Resilience Self-Assessment tool (R-SAT). The tool is designed to help managers of...
Regional workshop in Manado spurs transboundary conservation efforts in the Coral Triangle
From 15-17 May 2023, government officials, NGO representatives and researchers from countries in the Coral Triangle (CT), South-East Asia, converged in Manado, Indonesia, for a regional workshop aimed at advancing transboundary conservation efforts and the protection...
Ocean Governance Project at Monaco Ocean Week 2023
The Ocean Governance project took an active part in this year's Monaco Ocean Week, which took place from 20 to 25 March. Two official events on 22 March presented the project and its progress in 2022, and the new Global Alliance for Ocean Protection. The first event,...
Ocean Governance Twinning hosts webinar to enhance marine mammal management in the Western Indian Ocean
Marine mammal conservation is a pressing concern in the Western Indian Ocean, which is a hotspot for 34 marine mammal species, particularly the dugong, but also whales and dolphins. These species play vital ecological roles and contribute to the overall biodiversity...
The Marine Mammal Twinning at the Humpback Whale World Congress
Between 6 and 11 March 2023, the Marine Mammal Twinning of the Ocean Governance project’s component 2 attended the 3rd Humpback Whale World Congress, in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic. The congress brought together stakeholders involved in humpback whale...
BBNJ treaty – reflections on the historic agreement
To manage new MPAs in international waters, we will need to apply all the existing knowledge acquired from MPA management in jurisdictional waters The landmark ‘high seas treaty’ agreed on 5 March represents a major advance in global ocean governance as it creates the...