Empowering Communities for Dugong Conservation in the Lease Islands, Indonesia
Grantee Name: Coral Triangle Center
- Hotspot
- Wallacea
- Location
- Indonesia
- Amount
- $131,981
- Dates
- Jun 2022 – Aug 2024
- Keywords
- Awareness, Buffer zones, Capacity building, Community-based conservation, Fisheries, Habitat conservation and management, Indigenous People, Marine, Protected Areas, Species Conservation, Governance
Promote the improved management of the newly declared marine protected area in the Lease Islands of Maluku, with an emphasis on dugong conservation. Help to establish formal state recognition of traditional cultural mechanisms for control of marine areas.
1 Address threats to high priority species
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