“I am a Young Sea Warrior: What young people can do to support Marine Conservation Areas in North Maluku!” This is the theme of a special lecture organized by USAID SEA through implementing partner Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) on 12 February in Khairun University (UNKHAIR), Ternate, North Maluku. The lecture aimed to increase young people’s knowledge of the importance of
Total of 190,000 ha of biodiverse marine waters in the North Maluku province are ready to be designated for protection by the Minister of Marine Affairs and Fisheries.
USAID SEA last month joined the North Maluku Provincial Marine and Fisheries Office in a workshop to initiate the pilot testing of a small-scale fisheries management model based on catch monitoring through logbook data collection.
A recent biophysical survey conducted by SEA Project through CTC showed the reef fish ecosystem in the Banda Islands of Maluku to be in generally healthy condition which means there are more than five coral recruits per square meter and only two diseased corals were seen in 22 sites.
