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(October 10, 2024) The coastline of Mozambique contains some of the most biodiverse marine ecosystems in the world, Mangroves, Seagrasses and Coral Reefs, that harbor diverse species and support the livelihoods of millions of people who increasingly need protection and sustainable management in response to the impacts of human activity and climate change. The Associação de Ajuda de Desenvolvimento de Povo para Povo (ADPP) is implementing a program to restore Mangrove ecosystems within the scope of the Blue Futu...

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(October 07, 2024) On September 12 this year, the Technical-Scientific Unit to Support Biodiversity Offsets, a body established by the Environmental Impact Assessment Authority and made up of representatives from government institutions, private sector, academia and civil society organizations, met for another ordinary session in Maputo to analyze and discuss the first Biodiversity Offsets Management Plan (BOMP) to be implemented in Mozambique. Participants on the biodiversity offsets management plan meetin...

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(October 03, 2024) Locations in Northern Mozambique around the Quirimbas Islands and Nampula Province were identified as top biodiversity hotspots for the country, thanks to favorable coastal currents and conditions in these areas. See the full article here

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(October 02, 2024) The Great Southern Hemisphere Bioblitz, an international initiative that brings together biologists, conservationists, university students and the general public to record observations of organisms on the iNaturalist platform, promoting greater knowledge of biodiversity in the southern hemisphere, took place between 20 and 23 September 2024. In Mozambique, the Bioblitz was organized by the Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) as part of the project ‘Building Biodiversity Knowledge for...

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(October 02, 2024) The Niassa Special Reserve has implemented a vulture monitoring system through fitting vultures with monitoring collars. Through this work, the team aims at reducing poaching by poisoning, as the vultures quickly get to the carcasses. As a result of a partnership between WCS and Endangered Wildlife Trust, monitoring collars are being fitted to vultures in the Niassa Special Reserve. The vulture capture team is made up of biologists and researchers from the Wildlife Alliance, ecological monito...

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(October 02, 2024) WCS delivered a presentation on September 20, 2024, in Maputo City, at a hybrid learning event promoted by USAID through the SPEED+ (Supporting The Policy Enabling Environment for Development) and RCC (Resilient Coastal Communities) programs under the theme “Payment for ecosystem services (PES): an untapped potential in Mozambique?” involving more than 40 participants from various stakeholders.   Eleutério Duarte, WCS Mozambique Project Assistant, during his speach  a...

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(September 26, 2024) A technical seminar was held on September 17 and 18, 2024, in Maputo City, to engage the various stakeholders in the process of developing the Strategy and Action Plan for the Expansion of the National Network of Marine Protected Areas, including a brainstorming session on the contribution of Other effective marines area-based conservation measures' (OECMs) in Mozambique. The workshop was organized by the Mozambique Oceanographic Institute (InOM) with the support of the Wildlife Conservat...

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(September 18, 2024) More than 200 final-year university students and recent graduates from public and private universities and colleges across the country were trained in the process of environmental impact assessment and the implementation of biodiversity offsets in Mozambique. The event, promoted by the COMBO+ Programme, a partnership between the Ministry of Land and Environment (MTA), the Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS-Mozambique) and the Foundation for the Conservation of Biodiversity (BIOFUND), took place ...

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(September 18, 2024) Between 17 August and 5 September 2024, a hydrological restoration action was carried out in an area of approximately 38 hectares of mangrove in the community of Muanangome, Lunga Administrative Post, Mossuril District, Nampula Province. This effort is part of the Blue Future Project, led by the Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS), with the Eduardo Mondlane University (UEM) in charge of the technical coordination of the activity. Local implementation has the support of partners Associação de Aju...

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(August 23, 2024) The Oceanographic Institute of Mozambique (InOm), represented by technician Emildo Notisso, in partnership with the Wildlife Conservation Society (Jorge Sitoe and Dave Van Beunigen) and the Marine Megafauna Association (Dércio Maoze), is carrying out a survey as part of an initiative called Global FinPrint, which brings together researchers and collaborators from all over the world to study sharks, rays and other marine species on coral reefs using BRUVS in the Bazaruto Archipelago National Park...

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