8 MPAs now designated across STP (2 in São Tomé and 6 in Príncipe) - the country's first ever. All MPAs co-designed with communities through more than 200 participatory meetings and events💪

Check out @rare.org's most recent Blue Action-funded project, currently being implemented in the Tañon Strait Protected Seascape (Philippines' largest MPA) and neighbouring coastal communities🌊

Energising few days in Mombasa at #OurOceanKenya, exchanging with and learning from the 30x30 community🌊

@blueactionfund.org also launched it’s latest call for proposals on 'Mangroves, Blue Carbon Markets and 30×30 in Indonesia, Philippines, Vietnam and India' #OceanOptimism

🎥Watch this 17min video showcasing the @blueactionfund.org–funded project in São Tomé and Príncipe, led by @faunaflora.bsky.social tinyurl.com/57rcsuwf

🌊Offering excellent insights into project activities, local context & the work to protect marine ecosystems and support coastal communities in STP

Looking forward to working with @rare.org as they implement this exciting project in the Tañon Strait Protected Seascape, the Philippines' largest MPA🌊

Packed few days in Príncipe 🇸🇹 visiting the @blueactionfund.org -funded project led by @faunaflora.bsky.social, implemented by local partner Fundação Príncipe.

📸 Small-scale enterprises, grievance mechanism in action, fish catch data collection.

More on the project👇
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@oceanweigand.bsky.social & @idelamer.bsky.social visit our follow up investement in São Tomé and Príncipe 🇸🇹 with @faunaflora.bsky.social & partners, including to celebrate milestone 👇. (2/4)
www.fauna-flora.org/news/ministe...

Meanwhile São Tomé & Príncipe 🇸🇹 creates eight new marine protected areas...
@faunaflora.bsky.social Project soon to be visited by @idelamer.bsky.social & @oceanweigand.bsky.social
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Exciting times for marine conservation in São Tomé & Príncipe, on the brink of designating its first-ever MPAs🌊

Thank you Ireland for your support and leadership in @blueactionfund.org

Brief office visit with WCS🇲🇿 this morning who are implementing their ‘Blue Future’ project as part of @blueactionfund.org EbA window co-funded by GCF.

Running until 2027, learn more about the project on the newly launched project website wcsbluefuture.com/en/

Day 2 of 2nd Annual Marine Biodiversity Conference underway in Nacala🇲🇿

Words from National gov, community, NGO representatives and researchers yesterday.

Lots more to come today🐟

@blueactionfund.org is a proud event co-financer through its GCF funding window for EbA in the Western Indian Ocean.

🇲🇿Visit to Rare’s Projecto Wilipihera - empowering fisher-farmer communities to adopt nbs in Nampula province

✅Discussions with community fishing, farming, natural resource management, disaster risk reduction and mangrove restoration groups

🌊Part of @blueactionfund.org EbA window co-funded by GCF