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Mooring Buoys Installed in the Namena Marine Reserve Winter 2010 Working Together to Keep Coral Reefs Alive Mooring Buoys The Coral Reef Alliance (CORAL) unites communities to save coral reefs. We help the people who live near reefs protect their Installed in the fragile resources by providing the means to develop local projects that save coral reefs Namena Marine and benefit communities. Now that tourists are more easily able to visit the villages, residents will be able to develop tourism microenterprises to Reserve generate additional income for their com- munities. CORAL has also co-sponsored an f you’ve been keeping track of CORAL ecotourism business design training to as- Inews, you might remember the important sist communities in taking advantage of this decision of the Kubulau Resource Manage- opportunity. By encouraging tourists to visit ment Committee to install mooring buoys their villages, local community members will in the Namena Marine Reserve in order to have the chance to meet the divers who make it an official anchor-free zone, the first come to Namena, listen to their underwater so designated in all of Fiji. We are delighted experiences, and better understand the to report that the last of a total of nine value of their reefs. mooring buoys has now been installed. This CORAL has provided microgrants to fund number includes three moorings located mooring buoy installations in project sites near shore to support village visits by tour- around the world for more than ten years, ists. All moorings are now being used by including the installation of more than one both tour operators and private vessels. Crew members of the NAI’A live-aboard dive ship hundred mooring buoys in key locations The mooring installation project was with one of the mooring buoys they now use in the along the Mesoamerican Barrier Reef designed as a response to the intensifying Namena Marine Reserve in Belize, Honduras, and Mexico. These Photo by CORAL Staff anchor damage on Namena’s reefs. In the mooring buoy projects are already proving absence of moorings, vessels using the re- Resource Management Committee, and beneficial for reefs, communities, and lo- serve often dropped anchor on or near the CORAL raised the necessary funds for cal businesses—in addition to preventing reefs, impacting both the health of the reefs the installation of the moorings with gen- anchor damage, moorings aid dive opera- and their appeal to tourists. Heavy boat erous contributions from the Mar Viva tors in the safe delivery and pick-up of anchors crush corals and churn up sedi- Foundation, Greenforce, the Jean Michel their divers, and they have also increased ments, resulting in fewer healthy corals and Cousteau Resort, and Aggressor Fiji Ltd. community awareness of reef conservation degraded habitat for fish and other animals; Following the long process of securing issues. the use of anchors for securing commercial project approval from the Fiji Islands Mooring buoys are a simple and extreme- and recreational boats causes millions of Maritime Safety Administration and ly effective tool to reduce local pressures dollars in damage to coral reefs around the researching correct GPS information, on coral reefs, a strategy that is essential world every year. and after delays caused by tsunamis and for worldwide reef preservation. Healthy In Namena, local dive operators called for hurricanes, the last moorings were finally reef ecosystems—those that are not heavily an end to anchor damage in the reserve installed this fall by Dive Centre Fiji Ltd. impacted by local stresses—have proven at a Namena Marine Reserve Stakeholder In addition to six deep-water moorings much more resilient to global threats like Committee meeting. They proposed a that serve popular dive sites in the Na- climate change and water quality deteriora- series of heavy-duty moorings that would mena Marine Reserve, three near-shore tion. Mooring installations can help to build secure all vessels using the reserve, moorings also allow dive operators and robustness and resiliency in reef ecosys- eliminating the need for anchoring. The other vessels to access five of the Kubu- tems while benefiting local communities proposal was supported by the Kubulau lau villages. and businesses. WINTER 2010 THE CORAL REEF ALLIANCE (CORAL) 351 California Street, Suite 650 BreakiNG News from San Francisco, CA 94104 (415) 834-0900 www.coral.org CORAL’S PROJECT SITES “Working Together to Keep Coral Reefs Alive” CORAL BOARD OF DIRECTORS Lyn Ciocca, Board Chair H. William Jesse Jr., Treasurer Mark Rovner, Secretary Curtis R. Berrien Linda Cain Rod M. Fujita Cozumel, Mexico Photo by CORAL staff Paula Tupper Hayes Leah Bunce Karrer Katheryn Patterson Kempner James R. Tolonen Mesoamerica INDO-Pacific Elizabeth Ulmer C. Elizabeth Wagner MEXICO: The CORAL Reef Leadership FIJI: CORAL, in partnership with the Univer- Network has now trained over 700 local sity of the South Pacific, co-sponsored an ac- CORAL STAFF tour guides in Cozumel, and twenty-six credited training course in tourism business Executive Director companies have participated in CORAL’s design in the Kubulau District to enable vil- Brian Huse Environmental Walk-Through program. lages to set up community-based ecotourism Conservation Programs Director CORAL’s education and outreach work has businesses. This effort compliments the recent Rick MacPherson sparked one large commercial cruise line installation of near-shore moorings, which al- Finance and Administration Director to request that its local providers comply low boat-based tourists to access Kubulau’s Tom Meshishnek with a modified version of the voluntary villages more easily. Development Director standards for sustainable marine recre- Diana Williams ation. The cruise line is currently conduct- PAPUA NEW GUINEA (PNG): To pro- Assistant Director of Development Sarah Freiermuth ing a pilot test with three local providers. mote sustainable economic development in Riwo village, CORAL held meetings with the Communications Manager Susan Wolf BELIZE: CORAL-funded flashcards and Riwo Cooperative to plan a workshop on tra- Accountant posters explaining mooring buoy guide- ditional fish trap making, as well as community Vicky Seid lines have been distributed nationally, planning and organization strategies. Conservation Programs Associate and are now available on the Belize Tour- Candace Leong ism Industry Association website. CORAL RAJA Ampat: As part of the new patrol Communications Associate co-sponsored ‘CSI for Coral Reefs,’ an guidelines and community outreach strategy Joanna Solins intensive five-day training workshop to in Misool, CORAL has implemented the “My Foundation and Grants Associate help coral reef managers and conservation Small Library” project, an effort to engage Kate Trevelyan-Hall groups increase their capacity to respond youth in nearby communities. Community Development Assistant to illegal activities that damage coral reefs. patrol boats visit local villages on a weekly Malinda Wistrom Participants learned about coral reef fo- basis to lend books to the schools. Through Field Managers rensic investigations and rehearsed the a donation drive based in Bali, CORAL has Liz Foote (Hawaii) procedures that will allow them to present collected over 400 children’s books for the Kenneth Johnson (Mexico) compelling evidence in court. lending library. Jenny Myton (Honduras) Valentine Rosado (Belize) Naneng Setiasih (Indonesia) HONDUras: The new CORAL Reef Hawaii: CORAL is conducting educational Heidi Williams (Fiji) Leadership Network (CRLN) in Honduras outreach with the Hawaii Division of Aquatic Field Representatives has already completed eight Sustain- Resources (DAR) at the new Kahekili Herbi- Sirilo “Didi” Dulunaqio (Fiji) able Marine Recreation workshops on the vore Fisheries Management Area in Maui. Kara Osada-D’Avella (Hawaii) island of Roatan as part of the outreach Presentations for area hotel staff integrate el- Abdul Razak Tamher (Indonesia) Moala Tokata’a (Fiji) program of the Roatan Marine Park. The ements of CORAL’s Sustainable Marine Recre- workshops have reached a variety of target ation training with DAR’s presentations on sci- groups, including cruise ship tour guides, ence and regulations. Shops contracting with dive centers, water taxis, police, and local the hotels are being recruited into the Fish- Copyright © 2010 by the Coral Reef Alliance (CORAL) Editors: Susan Wolf and Joanna Solins governments. On Cayos Cochinos, sixteen Friendly Business Alliance, as fish feeding is Designer: Damien Scogin {[email protected]} dive and snorkel moorings and ten yacht now illegal within the protected area. A COR- CORAL Current is published quarterly by the Coral Reef moorings have been installed with CORAL AL microgrant funded a program for youth Alliance (CORAL), an IRS 501 (c)(3) nonprofit organization. Copies of our audited financial statement are available at funding, and two CRLN Leaders have been groups on Maui to learn about coral reef www.coral.org or by phone request. integrated into the team that is conducting conservation and documentation. The groups For comments, questions, or contributions to CORAL Current, please email us at [email protected]. tour guide certification training. created public service announcements that are being shown on local television. WINTER 2010 Combating Climate Change with BLUE CARBON SINKS Future Conservationists Participants in the Kids in Action program in Belize visit a mangrove forest that is protected in Bacalar Chico National Park Photo by Valentine Rosado ost studies about coral reefs
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