Highlights and Achievements October 2018 Capturing Coral Reef and Related Ecosystem Services Project 2 Highlights and Achievements

Highlights and achievements October 2018 Capturing Coral Reef and Related Ecosystem Services Project 2 Highlights and achievements CCRES highlights and achievements Key results Number of direct project beneficiaries (participants at focus groups, workshops, training): 2800 % beneficiaries who are women: 47% Number of tools completed: 15 Our coastal ecosystems — coral reefs, mangroves and seagrass beds — Number of outputs (scientific papers) provide fish to eat and sell, support tourism and protect the coastline from that call for reducing stress to maintain storms. Coastal communities rely on these ecosystems for their livelihoods value of ecosystem services: and food security. Unfortunately, these ecosystems are under threat from 8 pollution, overfishing, unsustainable development and climate change. Number of coastal resource management projects/plans/sites The Capturing Coral Reef and Related development or collectively to build a utilising CCRES models or tools in Ecosystem Services (CCRES) Project system-wide solution. For example, their design: is working to ensure the long- based on work at Bungaiya and Parak, it term sustainability of these coastal is now clear that when different CCRES 29 ecosystems. In collaboration with our tools are used collectively to solve a Number of information-sharing and project partners and end-users, we coastal management problem, better dissemination campaigns have developed a suit of innovative outcomes can be achieved. Together, models, tools and knowledge products the MPA toolkit, FishCollab, My Future, 46 to assist managers, policy-makers and My Oceans and the EbBD output planners to strengthen the governance of Waste2Enterprise have empowered the coastal ecosystems. Parak community at Selayar to a) prepare community-designed Marine Protected The tools have been developed by Areas (MPAs) and a management plan Our networks multi-disciplinary teams that include and b) start their own garbage bank scientists, policy-makers, businesses Our partners: to create alternative livelihoods from and other experts from a range of fields. the collection and value-adding of 18 They are the result of collaboration plastic waste. between leading centres of discovery, Our researchers and experts: learning and engagement in North We take this opportunity to thank all our America, Australia and the East Asia- partners and collaborators who have 100+ Pacific region, and specifically alongside made such a contribution to our progress Our subscribers: partners in Indonesia and the Philippines. and will ensure our tools are supported by end-users. 1000+ As we move towards the end of the project, we would like to share some Liz Izquierdo Our followers (Twitter): highlights with you to demonstrate Project Manager how we are already having impact with October 2018 479 our tools. Our followers (Facebook): The tools can be used individually to 583 address a specific challenge in coastal Capturing Coral Reef and Related Ecosystem Services Project Highlights and achievements 3 Marine planning 3 Workshop on Marine Spatial Planning for MPAs hosted by UQ, UniMelb and WWF Indonesia. Photo: P. Mumby THE TOOL: Rebuilding reef fisheries with core zones toolbox The Rebuilding reef fisheries with core What the science says Coral Reef Health Index, which zones toolbox comprises a set of tools has been applied to all COREMAP that enables coastal planners and policy- • Achieving the 10% target for marine sites monitoring data on coral reefs makers to support decisions on the total reserve coverage (under UN Aichi in Indonesia, and for MPA planning coverage/number, placement and local Convention on Biological Diversity) at Aceh size of MPAs, in order to sustain and in the Coral Triangle is likely to raise rebuild fisheries and to protect coastal fisheries productivity and catch MESOAMERICA biodiversity. but this requires protection from • The marine planning tools are fishing, not simply the designation set be used to support a RARE of protected areas. Tripling this project (Belize, Honduras, Mexico); level of protection would enhance and an MPAConnect training Key results fisheries benefits and align with workshop for MPA managers of 10 conservation goals (published in Caribbean countries using MPA Size Number of institutions (research, PLOS Biology, Jan. 2017) Optimisation tool has been held government and NGOs) which have • Seagrass beds reduce bacteria (September 2018) attended trainings for MPA design tools pathogenic to humans and PACIFIC 30+ marine life by up to 50% (published in SCIENCE Magazine, • The government of Palau in Number of research outputs that call Feb. 2017) the western Pacific Ocean has for reducing stress to maintain value of requested support to assist Koror ecosystem services Where we’ve had uptake State to apply the MPA toolbox to support decision-making 8 INDONESIA • The marine planning tools have PHILIPPINES Number of coastal resource been used by World Wildlife Fund • Haribon Foundation, which is a management projects/plans/sites (WWF) Indonesia and the Ministry Responsible Partner of the DENR/ utilising MPA tools in their design of Marine Affairs and Fisheries UNDP Smart Seas PH Project, 27 (MMAF) in 27 locations across has used Fish SPACE to evaluate 34 Indonesian provinces marine reserve design and fisheries • The MPA toolkit has been used by management initiatives in Lanuza COREMAP to develop the National Bay, Surigao del Sur Capturing Coral Reef and Related Ecosystem Services Project 4 Highlights and achievements • Smart Seas PH is using Lanuza Bay as a model site to roll out the Stories of uptake MPA design tools in other Marine Key Biodiversity Areas such as the Davao Gulf and the Verde MPA design in Indonesia: a collaborative effort Island Passage The use of CCRES tools by WWF MPA Design Specialist), both from • The Palawan Council for Indonesia to undertake Marine The University of Queensland (UQ). Sustainable Development and Protected Area (MPA) design The workshop was a collaboration WWF Palawan are using Fish applications at 27 locations across between the CCRES project SPACE and the MPA Size and Indonesia started with a workshop and Estra Divari and Christian Placement Optimization Tools to two years ago. Handayani of WWF Indonesia, support MPA design in Cluster 5 At this workshop practitioners, NGOs based on a related project funded in northeastern Palawan, which and government agencies set out by the Australian government (ARC includes the municipalities of El to support improved MPA design Linkage). The workshop provided Nido, Linapacan, Taytay, Dumaran, for fisheries. They downloaded new opportunity for participants from Roxas and Araceli marine planning tools from CCRES diverse areas around Indonesia • Fish SPACE and the MPA Size and in order to design MPAs using their to share their experiences and Placement Optimization tools have own computers. knowledge of the systems and been used in Oriental Mindoro, practicalities of MPA design. Lanuza Bay, Palawan and Batangas The activity focused on the benefits of effective MPAs, reef vulnerability “It was fantastic to see local • The Zoological Society of London and coral reef connectivity, as NGOs taking our new connectivity working in the Panay and Negros well as the overall coverage, size optimisation tool and already islands, and the Macajalar Bay and placement of strict no-take applying it to advice on MPA design Development Alliance in Misamis fishery reserves. questions in the Sunda Banda,” Oriental have developed workplans remarked Nils. to use the MPA design tools “In the past, MPAs were created to • The Protected Area Management protect biodiversity. Now the focus “It has been an inspiration for us at Board of the El Nido-Taytay is shifting towards designating areas CCRES for these practitioners to Managed Resource Protected based on building fisheries,” said share the challenges they face, and Area will consider Fish SPACE Prof Peter Mumby, CCRES Chief for us to consider ideas for research results and associated research Scientist, who led the workshop to address those problems,” in implementing and planning for together with Dr Nils Krueck (CCRES Peter added. protection and interventions in the protected area WHAT TOOL USERS SAY “We will be making use of the tools as a support for decision-making — for example, to describe the conditions in an MPA plan area.” 3 Ibu Estra Divari, WWF Indonesia. Photo: P. Mumby Capturing Coral Reef and Related Ecosystem Services Project Highlights and achievements 5 Peer reviewed publications CCRES work has delivered several publications in major scientific journals, with many more in the pipeline as the project comes to a close. Publications include: Recruit fresh talent for Reserve Sizes Needed to Seagrass ecosystems Global inequities between coral reefs Protect Coral Reef Fishes reduce exposure to polluters and the polluted: Nature. 557:492. Conservation Letters bacterial pathogens climate change impacts on June 2018 Early view online of humans, fishes, coral reefs September 18, 2017 and invertebrates G. Ahmadia, E. Darling, D. Global Change Biology Andradi-Brown, M. Barnes, Nils C. Krueck, Christelle Science magazine Volume 21, Issue 11 Gill D. Estradivari, L. Glew, Legrand, Gabby N. Volume 355, Issue 6326 November 2015 E. Gress, G. Gurney, V. Ahmadia, Estradivari, February 17, 2017 Pages 3982–3994 Horigue, R. Jakub, S. Alison Green, Geoffrey P. Pages 731–733 Nicholas H. Wolff, Simon D. Mangubhai, H. Valles and Jones, Cynthia Riginos, Joleah B. Lamb, Jeroen Donner, Long Cao, Roberto

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