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Communities are integral stewards of ocean sustainability. 🌊 Initiatives across the Western Indian Ocean that strengthen the capacity of local communities to engage in marine resource planning and management are invited to submit abstracts for #WIOMSA2025.

What are #NaturebasedSolutions and what global challenges can they help with? Learn more ➡️ shorturl.at/wyzAV

A new abstract submission record for #WIOMSA2025! 1190 abstracts were received - the highest number in WIOMSA’s history!

We are building coastal community resilience through business and leadership training. So far, 📌 98 Eco-credit members on trained business skills training. 📌 68 leaders from 15 BMUs trained on leadership and life skills. #CoastalCommunities #FinancialLiteracy Blue Ventures

The latest edition of the WIOMSA Newsbrief celebrates the transformative initiatives shaping marine conservation in the Western Indian Ocean.🌍

Did you know deforested areas can be up to 4°C hotter than forests? Losing trees doesn’t just harm ecosystems—it heats up the planet and fuels the climate crisis. 🔗: bit.ly/3FQJnVg #ForestsMatter

Discover the new Food and Agriculture Organization-UNOOSA publication about the use of space technology for agriculture development & #foodsecurity! 🛰️🌽 🚀buff.ly/pV48j76 #COPUOS #AgInnovation

Our initiative, the Dagaa Value Chain Development featured in The Standard! Through this initiative, women like Elizabeth Luvuno are turning small fish into big opportunities. standardmedia.co.ke/counties/artic…

The Kibuyuni Dagaa Project in Kwale County was featured on KTN! This initiative seeks to strengthen the local economy while advancing sustainable fisheries and food security. 👀 Watch the full story here: youtu.be/5q-tLV2IhGg?si… #DagaaValueChain #KTNFeature

The long rains are here with us, and so is the opportunity to restore life. 🌧📷. We partnered with the Kenya Forest Service (KFS); Community Forest Associations (CFAs) to plant 8,200 mangrove seedlings across four villages to restore degraded sites. #CommunityLedConservation

We trained 29 subcommittee members from 6 BMUs on Monitoring, Control & Surveillance (MCS) in Kwale County. This capacity building is critical in enhancing community-level enforcement. #CommunityLedConservation #BlueEconomy 👀 Watch the full story here: youtube.com/watch?v=GZboyq…

What can you expect when 72 local eco-credit leaders from 30 groups come together? ✅New ideas✅ Honest convos✅ Real solutions. Our annual eco-credit leadership forum helped leaders uncover shared challenges, co-create local solutions, and draft action plans.

A week of practical impact 🐝📷 30 bee farmers + 6 ToTs trained in hive prep across 3 villages in Majoreni, Kwale. With GIZ and Kwale Livestock Dept, we also issued bee suits, smokers & hive tools. #Beekeeping #Kwale #Livelihoods #BlueEconomy #PollinationMatter

At Mkwiro BMU, we listened—not to present, but to learn. With Blue Ventures, we hosted representatives of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Norway Norad, to witness firsthand how NORAD-funded work transforms lives in Kwale. Thank you for walking this journey with us. 🌊

This week, we trained 56 newly elected BMU leaders from 7 BMU units across the Shimoni-Vanga seascape We explored: 🔹 Grassroots leadership and BMU governance 🔹 Self-leadership & integrity 🔹 Ocean stewardship 🐟 This is supported by GIZ and delivered by the Kenya Fisheries dept

“The ocean speaks — sometimes in tides, sometimes through fishers at dawn.” Read about Waithira Kunene’s ocean champion experiences in amplifying local fishers’ perspectives in ocean governance: blog.wiomsa.net/2025/07/03/lis…

The WIOMSA Magazine is calling for contributions for a special edition on ocean literacies in the WIO region. This edition will explore diverse understandings, relationships, and communications about the ocean, highlighting the richness of ocean knowledge systems.

One Ocean, One Future. With ocean science at the helm, WIOMSA welcomes you to join a growing wave of collaboration, dialogue, and knowledge exchange for our oceans, coasts, and communities. Register before 20th August to attend #WIOMSA2025. 🔗symposium.wiomsa.org/register/

🌊 This World Mangroves Day, we celebrate nature’s silent guardians of our coastlines. In Kenya, #mangroves play a crucial role in climate resilience, coastal protection, biodiversity, and the livelihoods of thousands of coastal communities. Let’s stand with nature’s protectors

“Karibuni Kenya!” for the 13th WIOMSA Scientific Symposium. Ambassador Hellen Gichuhi, Chair of IOC Africa, invites you to be part of #WIOMSA2025, an incredible opportunity to connect science, policy, and people in our pursuit of a thriving Western Indian Ocean.