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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.


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.


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.

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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

[email protected]

Paolo Mangahas

Communications Manager

[email protected]

Cant get enough of WWF andthe Coral Triangle? Click on thelinks below to find us on

WWF's Coral Triangle programme is made possible in part by

the Turing Foundation


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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.

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