The Regional Secretariat of CTI-CFF, in partnership with the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) and www.thecoraltriangle.com, will be putting the spotlight on the ever-growing problem of plastic pollution in celebration of Coral Triangle Day via a social media campaign called #noplace4plastic, which derived from the main theme “Save Coral Triangle – Stop Plastic Pollution”.
Improving human and environmental conditions through the Coral Triangle Initiative: Progress and Challenges – Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability 2016, 19: 169-181
The Coral Triangle Initiative on Coral Reefs, Fisheries, and Food Security (CTI-CFF) is an ambitious marine conservation and governance program engaging six countries in Southeast Asia and Melanesia. It has attracted significant international support, including an investment of over $40 million from the United States through the five-year U.S. Coral Triangle Initiative Support Program.
Coastal Management – The international journal of marine environment, resources, law, and society – is providing complimentary access until May 31st to the twenty most-read articles published since 2014, seven of which focus on Coral Triangle Initiative issues.
The papers include:
Indonesia is located in the area known as the "Ring of Fire," making coastal vulnerability very high.
Due to its location, Indonesia faces possible disasters including earthquakes and tsunamis, floods, hurricanes and storms, climate change and sea level rise (SLR), among others.
Helen Fox, Ph.D. Appointed as CTI-CFF Scientific Adviser
As part of the organization's growth and empowerment, the CTI-CFF Regional Secretariat has appointed Helen Fox, Ph.D., a seasoned marine scientist, as Scientific Adviser today (4/7).
Helen specializes in coral reef ecology, marine conservation, marine protected area science, and interdisciplinary collaboration.
The Coral Triangle Marine Protected Area System aspires to become a region-wide, comprehensive, ecologically representative and well-managed system of marine protected areas (MPAs) and MPA networks. The development of this system will proceed primarily through the implementation of ecological, social, and governance MPA networks at the sub-national scale.
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Without effective management, protected areas are unlikely to achieve the high expectations the conservation and development sectors have for them: conserving biodiversity and alleviating poverty. Numerous marine protected area (MPA) assessment initiatives have been developed at various spatial and temporal scales, including the guidebook How is your MPA doing? These management assessments have been useful to sites to clarify and evaluate their objectives, yet efforts to examine broader regional or global patterns in MPA performance are only beginning.
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The six Coral Triangle countries—Indonesia, Malaysia, Papua New Guinea, Philippines, Solomon Islands, and Timor-Leste—each have evolving systems of marine protected areas (MPAs) at the national and local levels. More than 1,900 MPAs covering 200,881 km2(1.6% of the exclusive economic zone for the region) have been established within these countries over the last 40 years under legal mandates that range from village level traditional law to national legal frameworks that mandate the protection of large areas as MPAs.
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Maintaining ecosystem services of coral reefs, sustainable fishing, and improved food security are the three higher level outcomes of the Coral Triangle Initiative on Coral Reefs, Fisheries and Food Security (CTI-CFF). Food security is an obvious concern of the CTI-CFF because of 130 million people dependent on fish resources for food, income, and livelihoods, and also because it provides 11.3% (19.1 million tons) to global fisheries production from capture fisheries and aquaculture.
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The six Coral Triangle countries: Indonesia, Malaysia, Papua New Guinea, Philippines, Solomon Islands, and Timor-Leste, each have evolving systems of marine protected areas (MPAs) at the national and local levels.
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