East Asia and Pacific Environmental Initiative

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East Asia and Pacific Environmental Initiative

• Coastal Resources Management
• Richard Volk
• USAID/G/ENV
• rvolk_at_usaid.gov

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The Challenge

• coral reef bleaching
• destructive fishing
• land-based sources of pollution
• habitat loss degradation
• resource overutilization

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The Response

• based on understanding of causes
• develop regional capacity
• integral to socioeconomic issues
• private sector stakeholders
• integrate across sectors levels

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Overall Budget

• FY 1999 -- 1,364,000
• FY 2000 -- 1,307,000

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Challenges Opportunities Coral Reef Management

• food security
• ecologically vulnerable
• a non-renewable resource
• need for regional approaches

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Protection of Coral Reefs

• complement ICRI activities
• understand impacts of bleaching
• regional global awareness
• special session at 9ICRS
• assist governments coral trade
• community MPAs

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Challenges Opportunities Destructive Fishing

• a widespread practice
• high-value to low-value species
• consumption, aquarium trade, LRFT
• dynamite, poisoning, muro ami, trawling,
  overharvesting

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Destructive Fishing

• assess current status
• regional capacity building
• monitor LRFT in Hong Kong
• identify needed policy reforms
• market standards practices
• expand efforts to PNG SI

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Challenges Opportunities Land-based Sources

• increasing coastal population
• unsound coastal development
• habitat loss
• untreated sewage runoff
• expensive fixes

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Land-based Sources

• support implementation of GPA
• Partnership Market Meeting to engage private
  sector

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Challenges Opportunities Sea Turtles

• migratory range unknown
• 6 species endangered/threatened
• turtles and eggs harvested
• loss of marine and beach habitat
• international cooperation needed

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Sea Turtles

• Understand migratory range and habits of
  hawksbill sea turtles
• Achieve regional agreement for conservation of
  sea turtles in Indian Ocean and Indo- Pacific
  region

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Challenges Opportunities Marine Protected
Areas

• over 30 of worlds coral reefs
• most diverse and threatened
• MPAs serve multiple objectives
• move towards self-management and local benefit

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Challenges OpportunitiesICM

• Indirect effects ( poor planning) often most
  damaging
• cumulative impacts of multiple sources
  activities
• achieving self-management in face of poverty
  and within democratization process

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ICM in Indonesia

• assistance to national ministry and
  decentralization process
• provincial level cross-sectoral planning
• community-based site management
• field-based research learning
• dissemination of lessons learned

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The Future

• local government and community stewardship --
  ICM
• alternative livelihoods
• fisheries management
• no-take fishery reserves
• link protected areas regionally
• assess and define proper role for aquaculture
  in CRM