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the Coral Triangle
Tuna Think Tank Spawns Ideas to Save TunaChina has world's largest 'SeafoodPrint'
China catches and consumes more fish than any othernation, according to findings published in National
Geographic magazine.
Full article
Coral Triangle must be preservedMalaysia Tourism, Culture and Environment Assistant
Minister, Datuk Bolkiah Ismail, said the priceless
heritage in the Coral Triangle off Sabah State's waters
must be preserved and protected.
Full article
The threat of overfishing
The status of global fisheries is on the decline,
spearheaded by a continuous drive in demand fromconsumers in a quest to satisfy their taste buds with
succulent seafood.
Full article
Small Networks of Marine Reserves Better
Than Single Large Reserves
UN Universitys Peter Sale suggests creating smaller
reserves, concentrated on the most vulnerable areas for
fish and coral as a better solution.
Full article
How can overfishing of juvenile tuna be fixed in the Coral Triangle and
beyond? This is the basic question that a group of 25 people from various
disciplines and fields of expertise came to answer in Arnheim, Netherlands
from August 31 to September 2. Conceptualized by the WWF Coral Triangle
programme and organized together with the University of Wageningen, the
Tuna Think Tankmet to explore alternative models of juvenile tuna
management in the Western and Central Pacific, and the Coral Triangle.
The event was facilitated by Martin Kalungu-Banda, helping the group to
come up with many ideas, including five identified for prototyping:
1. Retail sourcing policies and brand strategies for reducing the use ofjuveniles in the canning industry;
2. Providing funds to reward vessel crews with the lowest big-eye juvenilecatches, or a cap and trade scheme that operates on a private sector
allocation basis and/or credit/ quota scheme to taxjuveniles catch;
3. Documentary film to create awareness of the tuna lifecycle;4. Amnesty for fishers to hand in small-mesh nets, and fund
investments into larger mesh nets;
5. FADs to TADsreducing fishing with Fish Attraction Devices byturning them into Tourist Attraction Devices, hence reducing catch of
juveniles while providing alternative livelihood opportunities.
WWF has already begun working with some think tank participants to
identify who could be involved in developing these prototypes, and will
continue to work with Wageningen University to support their research
programme on these issues.
WWFs vision for the Coral Triangle is to
protect its unique wildlife, conserve its
natural resources, and create sustainable
economic opportunities for the people and
communities of the region. Our work
addresses tuna, live reef fish, turtles,
bycatch, protected areas and climate
change.
more atpanda.org/coraltriangle
SEPTEMBER 2010
www.panda.org/coraltriangle
The Coral Triangle, the global centre of marine biodiversity, is a 6 million-km2 area
spanning Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Papua New Guinea, Timor Leste and
the Solomon Islands.
Within this nursery of the seaslive 76% of the worlds coral species, 6 of the worlds
7 marine turtle species, and at least 2,228 coral reef fish species.
WWF
Source: Coral Geographic (Veron et al., unpublished data)
Vin J. Toledo / WWF-Canon
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Kolinio MusudrokaKolinio is no stranger to WWF South
Pacific, as he first joined theorganisation as a volunteer for the former
Fiji Country Programme back in 2006.
Koli, as he is commonly called in the office,
joins the SPPO as the Macuata Field Officer
under the Coastal Management Inshore
Fisheries Programme (CMIFP). His
position is a unique arrangement for the
office, as he is based full-time at the projectsite.
Macuata is one of the provinces on VanuaLevu Island that is part of the Qoliqoli
Cokovata. The Qoliqoli Cokovata is made
up of districts in the Macuata Province of
Fiji that looks after a section of the Great
Sea Reef.
Koli is married with two wonderful
children.
Convention on Biological Diversity
10th Conference of Parties (COP 10)Oct 18-29, 2010
Nagoya, Japan
Find out more
End of the Line Screens in Malaysia, Opens
Eyes to Fisheries Crisis
As a part of the Save Our Seafood (S.O.S.) campaign, a private screening of
the documentary The End of the Line was held on 5 August 2010 at TGV
cinema in KLCC. The screening drew a crowd of almost 200.
The documentary premiered at the Sundance Film Festival in 2009 and is
the worlds first major documentary about the devastating effect of
overfishing. It aims to raise public awareness about the threat to the
worlds fish stocks and to change public policy across the world so that we
have a sustainable fishing industry. Some of the guests said that the film
was an eye-opener to an issue they had never thought of prior to this, and
added that they will start changing their seafood consumption patterns
from now on.
Thanks to TGV Cinemas, our staff, volunteers, and our wonderful guests,
the screening was a great success and an amazing leap towards spreading
the campaign and reaching our campaign objectives.
www.panda.org/coraltriangle
NEW STAFF
Wakatobi Gets Silver Screen Treatment
In September, production began on the movie "The Mirror Never
Lies" (preview here), with WWF-Indonesia and the Wakatobi
(Sulawesi) local government as executive producers, and filmmaker
group SET Karya Workshop doing the shooting. The story centres on
a mother and child from a Bajo tribe in Wakatobi Marine National
Park, who are searching for the father who has disappeared.
This project follows the recent recognition of KOMUNTO (TomiaFishermen Community) in Wakatobi as one of the winners of the
Equator Prize. The prize is awarded to recognize outstanding
community efforts to reduce poverty through conservation. Komunto,
a WWF partner, succeeded to mobilize and organize previously
isolated and scattered fishermen groups, eliminate coral reef
bleaching, stabilize fish prices, access capital for local development
projects, and engage local government in management activities.
WWF-Malaysia/Javin Tan
Kolinio Musudroka
Check outphotographer JamesMorgans slideshow ofthe Malay Bajau people,
whose centuries-oldculture is close toextinction.
See photos
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WWF Climate Initiatives Win Twin
Fundraising Awards
WWF-Philippines emerged as the most awarded
fundraising organization during the KYRA
awards, winning in the two categories it entered.
The KYRA awards seek to recognize excellent
Philippine fundraising campaigns to provide
models for other local non-profits.Full article
Tuna Think Tank: the industry must
take action'
Not consumers, nor the government but industry
should take the lead in making tuna fisheries
sustainable. This was the surprising conclusion
drawn by an international think tank broughttogether by Wageningen University and the
Worldwide Fund for Nature (WWF).Full article
Dr Chris Hails, WWF International
From the mid 70s to the mid 80s I was a lecturer in
Ecology and Zoology at the University of Malaya in
Kuala Lumpur. A team from my department was
conducting marine surveys for WWF Malaysia on an
island called Pulau Redang, and I was lucky enoughto be invited along on one trip to compile a bird list.
If I had been impressed with the rain forest, I was
stunned by my first coral reefs. Back in Kuala
Lumpur I got myself a SCUBA certificate and this
became my major leisure activity.
Wind the clock forwards to the early 90s and I nowfound myself in
Switzerland working for WWF International as Director of the Asia-Pacific
Programme. For many years WWF and IUCN had promoted a system of
terrestrial protected areas in Indonesia, but the marine equivalent was in its
infancy, and Malaysia was only just slightly ahead. What we did know was
that South-east Asias corals were the most diverse in the worldand that
they were very much under threat.
By the end of the decade we had understood what the Sulu-Sulawesi Sea
ecoregion actually meant and how to approach large-scale conservation
work. We had a fledgling Marine Stewardship Council as a tool, we knew
where many of the fish taken from the region were ending up and we started
to tackle the live reef fish trade. By the end of the next decade we talked now
of the Coral Triangle, and had high-level commitment in the form of an
international agreement signed by Heads of State an unthinkable
situation at the start of my story. But the story is nowhere near the end in
the closing chapter (will there be one?) WWFs efforts will be judged by
intact reefs, healthy fish stocks and sustainable livelihoods.
Today I am still in Switzerland, trying to support the Coral Triangle through
the newCampaign for a Living Planetto raise funds from major donors,
and at the consumption end by helping WWF Singapores seafood
campaign.
I wish the whole Coral Triangle team much strength, patience and resilience
at the current stage of this long journey.
www.panda.org/coraltriangle
Chris Hails
Highlights from the Pacific Islands Forum
At the 41st Pacific Islands Forum, held in August in Vanuatu, Heads of State
and Government of Pacific nations reiterated their support for climate
mitigation actions and sustainable fisheries, which dovetail with some goals
of the Coral Triangle Initiative.Highlights from the two-day event included:strengthened efforts to keep national and regional climate change
initiatives relevant and coherent in the region;endorsement of principles to guide Forum Island Countries and partners
in climate change adaptation and mitigation measures;improved regional approaches to fisheries conservation and
management; andbuilding frameworks for action on food security and energy security.
In particular, regional heads called for better and new multilateral Pacificmechanisms to protect regional fisheries including exchange of law
enforcement data and use of fisheries data for other law enforcement
activities.Heads of State and Government also endorsed a draft cooperativemanagement framework for 38.5 million km2 surrounding their islands, the
Pacific Oceanscape.
As part of the WWF-Singapore Sustainable Seafood
Campaign a range of adverts featuring sustainable
seafood are appearing in outdoor, print and digital
formats, all throughout Singapore between August
and November. The ads aim to encourage diners to
use the Singapore Seafood Guide to help them
choose seafood from sustainable sources that are
fished and farmed responsibly. Special thanks to
Ogilvy for the fantastic creative work, and thefollowing supporters that have kindly provided
advertising space: Catalog, JCDecaux Singapore,
Clear Channel Singapore, ZOMedia.
See more ads
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Aquatic Dead Zones Around the World
Green Turtle Nesting Sites and Sea Turtle
Legislation throughout OceaniaKimberly A. Maison and Karen P. FrutcheyIrene Kinan-Kelly
This literature review compiled by K. Maison and K. P.
Frutchey (University of Hawaii), and I. Kinan-Kelly
(National Marines Fisheries Service) aims to facilitate
better understanding of green turtle nestingdistribution in the Central and Western Pacific Ocean,
including a summary of legal protections for sea turtles
throughout the region.
Read the report
Preserving Reef Connectivity handbookIn this handbook, Peter Sales and colleagues tackle one
specific concern when
contemplating effective
management of coastal
marine environments the
issue of connectivity. Thehandbook assists MPA
managers and others in
understanding and applying
the concept of connectivity in
their work.
Download the handbook
WWF Coral Triangle Contacts
Dr Lida Pet-Soede
Programme Leader
LPet@wallacea.wwf.or.id
Paolo Mangahas
Communications Manager
pmangahas@wwf.org.my
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WWF's Coral Triangle programme is made possible in part by
the Turing Foundation
www.panda.org/coraltriangle
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Dead zones are areas in
the Earths oceans with very
low levels of oxygen, often as a result
of chemical fertilizer run-off. It is
interesting to note that despite the
relative high population pressures of
Southeast Asia, so far the Coral Triangle
seems to have been spared dead aquatic
zones.
Source: NASA
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