Our work continues, despite Covid-19

Despite the COVID-19 pandemic, the project team was able to carry out several activities and take a step forward with regards to the creation of a network of marine protected areas in São Tomé and Príncipe through a co-management approach.
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Some of the main achievements in 2020 were: the inclusion of five new target  communities on the island of Príncipe, additional progress in the community consultation process in more than 10 communities, the presentation of the new results of the MARXAN analysis aimed at facilitating the selection marine protected areas (based on biological and socio-economic information collected so far), training of five new extension workers to collect data on fishing effort and the participation in the regional activities held for the Youth Day.

The team would like to thank all fishermen and palaiês on the island of Príncipe, as well as Government authorities, Tour Operators and other conservation NGOs for facilitating and supporting our work!