DiDEM news 2021 & 2022
School visit, Incomati delta, Mozambique @Dominique Vinckenbosch
As soon as the DIDEM project was launched in 2021, exchanges with the partners of the Comorian Patsy University Centre led to a request for support in setting up a master's degree dedicated to sustainable development and biodiversity conservation. Workshops between the teaching staff and the DiDEM team led to the design of an interdisciplinary model validated by the central administration of the University of Comoros.
The opening of the Master's programme is scheduled for the academic year 2022-2023.
#capacity building #Sustainable development #Biodiversity Conservation #University of Comoros
A photographic report will be produced in September 2022, to show faces and bodies at work in the landscapes that link the Land to the Sea, and to give us a better understanding of the land-sea relationship through the rivers and deltas, as well as illustrating the research activities of the CNRE and IRD teams on the Ikopa and Betsiboka rivers and the questioning of the stakeholders interviews of the Boeny region and the Regional Centre for Integrated Coastal Zone Management (CRGIZC).
#Madagascar #PhotoReport #DialogueScienceCivilSociety
Planned in September 2022
Seychelles
The Future of Plastic Waste: what's new?
Two of the three TFOPW projects were launched in March/April 2022: Collect-Connect and Recycling Machine. The third project, an awareness campaign, will be launched in the third quarter of this year.
Seed money for the first two projects was received from the Société des Explorations de Monaco
#Seychelles #TheFuturOfPlasticWaste
June 22
The attack was observed in 2020 and became massive in 2022 in the Betsiboka estuary. The culprit is a defoliator caterpillar Hyblaea puera (Cramer, 1777) that specifically attacks the mangrove tree Avicennia marina that constitutes the monospecific stand of mangroves downstream of the Betsiboka delta.
The DiDEM/Deltas-Madagascar team was mobilised by the Boeny region to assess the situation.
#Madagascar #Betsiboka #Mangroves
June 2022
The Nairobi Convention (NC) has asked its 10 Parties and other key stakeholders to nominate representatives to contribute to the development of a Regional Ocean Governance Strategy (ROGS) for the Western Indian Ocean. These individuals will form a Task Force (TF) which will have to finalise its proposals by November 2023, the date of the next NC COP 11.
In April 2022, France appointed Florence GALLETTI (Marine Science & Law of the Sea) and Francis MARSAC (Oceanography), members of DiDEM, and Benoit RODRIGUES (International Affairs and Partnerships, IRD)
#OceanGovernance #HighSeas
June 2022
Equipped with their fins, mask and snorkel, the school children of Baie St Anne in Praslin set out to explore the coral reefs of Curieuse Marine Park.
Their objective: to learn more about the functioning of the coral reefs and the pressures they face in order to set up a conservation action at their scale, as if they were themselves the managers of the Park.
#PAREO #Seychelles #CurieuseMarinePark
June 2022
The PAREO project is on Facebook!
Coastal erosion is one of the major challenges facing the Comoros. In order to anticipate the consequences, the DiDEM project deploys methods, tools and trainings and supports Comorian partners to set up a coastal erosion monitoring mechanism in a participatory observatory approach.
#CoastalErosion #ParticipatoryObservatory #Comoros
June 2022
Fish = pwason in Seychellois Creole
A new version of the poster "the garden under the sea" from the MARECO kit has been produced with the names of the fish translated into Seychellois Creole.
#PAREO #Seychelles #MarineBiodiversity
May 2022
Click on the poster to see all the reef inhabitants!
CNRE's infrastructure and know-how (WIODER team, then DiDEM/Deltas-Madagascar) were mobilised for the SWOT (System Water Ocean Technology) mission, which brought together 7 researchers from CNES, CNRS, INSU, IRD (LEGOS, SENS), CNRE and IOGA on the Tsirinbihina River, the only navigable river in western Madagascar, from 2 to 9 May 2022.
#Madagascar #RiverObservatory #SWOT
May 2022
Two science-decision-maker dialogue workshops were held at the Roches Rouges Hotel in Mahajanga, on the theme of Mangroves, on 14-15 December 2021 and 7-8 April 2022, the third workshop in Ambato-Boeny on 24-25 May 2022 was devoted to the flooding of the Betsiboka River, and the fourth will take place in mid-September 2022 in the Marovoay region on the silting up of irrigated perimeters upstream of the Betsiboka Delta.
#Deltas #Madagascar #DialogueScienceCivilSociety
May 2022
High Seas & Distant Seabed -WIO
The RESILIENCE cruise: a 35-day adventure at sea aboard the Marion Dufresne
From April 19 to May 24, 2022, the RESILIENCE cruise took place in the Mozambique Channel and along the east coast of South Africa. This multidisciplinary campaign focused on the influence of small-scale physical processes on biological production at the edge of oceanic eddies present in the area. It brought together scientists from many countries including South Africa, Mozambique and Mauritius.
Jean-François Ternon, coordinator of the DiDEM High Seas component, participated as cruise leader.
#HighSea #WesternIndianOcean #RESILIENCEcruise
April-May 2022
The Union of Comoros has a set of laws and regulations that constitute an efficient lever for the protection of biodiversity, natural habitats and the sustainable management of its natural resources.
The goal of the tutorial is to familiarise civil society with its rights and duties regarding the protection and sustainable management of its natural environment.
#LegalTutorial #EnvironmentProtection #Comoros
April 2022
The Littosim-Didem workshop took place from 27 to 29 April 2022 at the Centre National de Recherches sur l'Environnement (CNRE) in Antananarivo. It was both a moment of meeting between researchers and a place of reflection on the adaptation of the Littosim platform to the Malagasy context.
#SeriousGame #MarineSubmersion #Madagascar
April 2022
This training was held from April 11-15, 2022 jointly in Marracuene, Mozambique and in Antananarivo, Madagascar at the CNRE office.
The training week was divided between theoretical sessions and practical writing courses, so participants can move forward in their article.
#YoungResearchers #WesternIndianOcean
April 2022
A crucial issue is to give voice to the Fisher-farmers living in the delta, and in particular to the most vulnerable and least represented users in water sharing institutions.
To this end, a participatory observatory of the Incomati delta has been developed, with support from the “Indian Ocean Blue Year” project.
It includes 12 observers spread throughout the delta and representative of different professions and geographical situations with regard to the river.
#IncomatiDelta #Mozambique #DialogueScienceCivilSociety
April 2022
How does river flow influence the entire estuary ecosystem? That is the subject of Dinis Juizo’s research. We met him in the Incomati Delta in southern Mozambique. As part of an interdisciplinary team, he identifies the flows needed to preserve Indian Ocean deltas which are nurseries for fish and a source of income for the local community.
It’s time for the second video profile of people working in the #BlueEconomy in the Indian Ocean!
#IOBlueYear #BlueEconomy #DIDEM Deltas
March 2022
Next stop: Mohéli National park in the Comoro Islands! Adifaon gives a close-up of his daily life with fishermen, scientists, and locals who live in the Indian Ocean. In this first video about the #BlueEconomy in the Indian Ocean, he explains the importance of protecting the ocean and controlling fishing to maintain a blue economy that respects the environment and sustains the population.
#IOBlueYear #BlueEconomy #DIDEM Comoros
Know more about the participatory observatory of the coastal erosion in Mohéli and Anjouan
February 2022
Participatory workshop on the implementation of the serious game LittoSIM
Foreseen in April 2022
3 award-winning projects of the Future of Plastic Waste
November 30th, 2021
Festival do Estuario : a science - society meeting by the Incomati river
14-17 October 2021
Mapping together the Western Indian Ocean Deltas
a workshop organized by the GDRI-Sud Deltas and the DiDEM project
October 2021
International course on Ocean governance
International Ocean Institute-African Region
September 2021
Participation to the IUCN
Congress : A session on the Deltas
September 2021
Restitution of the PAREO activities
in la Réunion, Mauritius and in Seychelles
August 2021
Coastal environment at the center of the dialogue Sciences-Decision makers in Comoros
August 2021
Launch of the participatory observatory on vulnerability of the Anjouan and Mohéli coasts to erosion
August 2021
Integrate scientific knowledge into decision-making
for coastal and marine management
in the Western Indian Ocean
2021-2024
Mohéli, Comores @Nourddine Mirhani