PostTsunami Activities of Japan and East Asian Network

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Post-Tsunami Activities of Japan and East Asian
Network
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• Tadashi KIMURA
• Japan Wildlife Research Center (JWRC)

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• Status of Coral Reefs of the World 2004
• launching (Dec, 2004)

• Regional Status Report of East Asian Coral
  Reefs
• preparing

• Tsunami (26 December 2004)

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Thailand

• National network of scientists

Rapid Impact Assessment of Tsunami on Marine
Resources
(30 Dec 2004 15 Jan 2005)
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• GCRMN Southeast Asia coordinator,
• Ms. Karenne Tun (WorldFish Center)

Collecting information from all the affected
countries
Post-tsunami assessment in Myanmar
(with Reef Check Europe)
Summary report on post-tsunami coral reef
assessment in affected Southeast Asian countries
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Indonesia
The northern Sumatra the most severe damage

• changes to the coastline morphology,
• bathymetry of the surrounding waters.

Damage to coral reefs 30
moderate impacts (varied) (visible physical
changes)

• Pulo Aceh Islands serious damage.
• Pulau Weh only shallow corals (lt3m) signs of
  damage,
• deeper corals minimal damage.
  
• Simuelue Island moderate

(impacts from the subsequent earthquake on March
28 is still not known)
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Malaysia

• Tsunami reached the northwestern coast of
  Malaysia
• no tsunami related damage
• (Assessment March 2005)

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Thailand

• Official assessment
• six provinces affected by the tsunami
• ( Phang-Nga most impacted )
• The impact assessment (174sites assessed)
• 12 of the sites severe impact
• 47 of the sites low to
  moderate impact
• 41 of the sites no visible
  impact
• Assessment in Surin 
• Mu Koh Surin National Park highly damaged
• (overall loss
  in coral cover 8)
• (by Coral Cay Conservation between February and
  March 2005)

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Myanmar

• Official government reports
• Subsequent assessments by NGOs
• Unofficial reports by tour operators and tourists

only mildly affected by the tsunami

• An assessment of western Mergui Archipelago
• (Reef Check Europe and WorldFish Center in March
  2005)

literally untouched by the tsunami waves with
little environmental damage
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• Regional Status Report of East Asian Coral Reefs

• National reports in SE and NE Asia

• Summary of tsunami damage in SE Asia

• will be disseminated at the next ICRI
• General meeting

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Small fund for local program
Sea fan Rehabilitation Project in Similan Island

• Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA)

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Sea fan Rehabilitation Project at Similan Marine
National park, Phang Nga Province

• Mr. Sakanan Plathong
• (Prince of Songkla University, Thailand)
• nearly 250 sea fans in Similan islands have
  fallen down.
• (about 10 of sea fans found in Similan
  islands)
• Many of them are bigger than 1 meter

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• Rehabilitation
• (April 2005) trials for re-fix Seafan

• Monitoring
• (April - December 2005)

• Evaluation
• (December 2005)

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• Rehabilitation (April)

• To fix the sea fans
• (by steel and wire, marine cement, epoxy, etc)
• 30 - 40 volunteer divers (4-5 days)
• The Department of Marine and Coastal Resources
  support the field expenses for volunteer divers
  and a boat.

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• Monitoring success of the project after 8 months
  (December 2005)

To monitor the long term effects to examine
survival rates
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• Summary and evaluation of the recovery project
  (December 2005)

• Project summary and evaluation seminar in Phuket
  or Bangkok
• To assess the success of the project and to
  discuss problems

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Post-Tsunami Activities of Japan and East Asian
Network

• Regional Status Report of East Asian Coral Reefs

• Small Fund for Sea fan Rehabilitation Project
• in Similan Island