GCRMN_COI_2017-Western Indian Ocean Reef Status

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Coral reef status report for the Western Indian Ocean (2017) Global Coral Reef Monitoring Network Bluemel, Josep Nogués, Jude Bijoux, Mariliana Leotta, Nicholas Graham, Patsy Thérésine, Phillip Haupt, Pierre-Andre Adam, Richard Jeanne, Rodney Quatre, Savi Leblond, Shaun Wilson; South Africa, Camilla Floros, David Pearton, Justin Hart, Michael Schleyer, Sean Porter, Stuart Laing; Tanzania, Ali Ussi, Hassan Kalombo, Jiddawi, N.S., Mohammed, M.S., Muhando, C., Sallema-Mtui, R., Yahya, S.A.S. 1.1.1.2 Institutions REGIONAL CHAPTERS Comoros, Blue Ventures Conservation, Direction Générale de l’Environnement et des Forêts, Comoros, United Nations Development Programme; Kenya, African Nature Organization (ANO), Arocha-Kenya, CORDIO East Africa, East Africa Wildlife Services, Kenya Marine and Fisheries Research Institute (KMFRI), Kenya Wildlife Service (KWS), National Environment Management Authority, Worldwide Fund for Nature (WWF); Madagascar, Blue Ventures, Centre National de Recherche Océanographiques (CNRO), CETAMADA, Direction Régional du Ministère de l’Environnement, de la Mer et des Forêts, Mahajanga (DREEMF), Madagascar National Park (MNP), Parc Marin de Tanikely, Station de Recherche Océanographique de Vangaindrano (SROV); Mauritius, Albion Fisheries Research Centre (AFRC), Eco-Sud, Forever Blue, Indian Ocean Commission (IOC), Lagon Bleu, Mauritius Marine Conservation Society (MMCS), Mauritius Oceanography Institute (MOI), Mauritius Tourism Authority, Ministry of Environment, Sustainable Development, and Disaster and Beach Management (MoESDDBM), Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Regional Integration and International Trade, Ministry of Local Government, Ministry of Ocean Economy, Marine Resources, Fisheries, Shipping and Outer Island, National Coast Guards (NCG), Reef Conservation, Regional Integration and International Trade, Rodrigues Regional Assembly (RRA) (SEMPA; South East Marine Protected Area), Shoals Rodrigues, The Mauritian Scuba Diving Association (MSDA), University of Mauritius (UoM); Mozambique; Reunion, Direction de l’Environnement, de l’Aménagement et du Logement, GIP Réserve Naturelle Marine de La Réunion, Institut Français pour l’Exploitation de la Mer, délégation ocean Indien, IRD (Institut de Recherche pour le Développement), MAREX, Université de La Réunion; Seychelles, Aldabra Marine Programme, Alphonse Island Lodge, Denis Island Lodge, Department of Parks and Wildlife (Australia), Desroches Island Development Ltd, Desroches Island Lodge, Fisheries and Marine Consultancy, Global Environment Facility, Global Vision International, Government of Seychelles, Green Islands Foundation, Independent Consultant, Indian Ocean Commission, Island Conservation Society, Islands Development Company, James Cook University (Australia), Lancaster University (UK), M/Y Pangaea, Marine Conservation Society Seychelles, Marine Conservation Society Seychelles, Ministry of Environment, Energy and Climate Change, Nature Seychelles, North Island Luxury Private Resort, Seychelles Fishing Authority, Seychelles Islands Foundation, Seychelles National Parks Authority, Silhouette Hilton LaBriz Resort & Spa, University of Hawaii (USA), University of Newcastle upon Tyne (UK); South Africa, Department of Environmental Affairs, Mazda Wildlife Fund, National Research Foundation, Oceanographic Research Institute, South African Association for Marine Biological Research, Western Indian Ocean Marine Science Association; Tanzania, Institute of Marine Sciences (IMS- UDSM), National Environment Management Council, State University of Zanzibar, Tanga Coastal Zone Conservation and Development Programme, Tanzania Coral Reef Taskforce, University of Dar es Salaam. 04
Coral reef status report for the Western Indian Ocean (2017) Global Coral Reef Monitoring Network 1.1.2 Methods/Approach Quantitative data on WIO coral reefs has been collected by a diversity of programmes, focused mainly on marine protected areas, programmes run by research institutes and/ or individual research projects led by local or foreign researchers. Much of the data is unpublished and held in insecure spreadsheets on personal computers, and some of it is published in the grey literature. Plate - Diver implementing a Line Intercept Transect. c. David Obura. The regional reporting process was announced and advertised to the marine management, conservation and science communities of the region through the preparatory activities and workshops of the IOC’s ISLANDS and Biodiversity projects in 2013-2015, the Conference of Parties to the Nairobi Convention in June 2015 and the Scientific Symposia of the Western Indian Ocean Marine Science Association (WIOMSA) in October 2014 and October 2015. Given the prior investment in regional and national network structures, and strong interest from the countries and contributing institutions to use this framework, our approach departed from that taken by the Caribbean reporting process, where direct approaches from the regional team to individual data owners and scientists was the principal approach. We used the national and regional reef networks established under the Nairobi Convention and GCRMN, comprising the two sub-regional GCRMN networks for the SW Indian Ocean islands, and the mainland African coast, both of which are grouped in the regional Coral Reef Task Force of the Nairobi Convention. Given the hiatus in activity in these networks and the national Coral Reef Task Forces (NCRTF) established in the 2000s, revitalization of these structures was undertaken by the IOC ISLANDS and Biodiversity projects, in a series of activities from 2013-2016. To support this reporting, a number of network meetings were held, including two regional workshops (in Mauritius, February 2015 and Zanzibar, May 2016), several national workshops, and REGIONAL CHAPTERS 05
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