(August 03, 2023) Frequent and accurate monitoring of biodiversity is key for adaptive management approaches of coastal habitats, which are critical to hundreds of thousands of Mozambicans who rely on fishing for a living. WCS Mozambique and partners are working with NatureMetrics – UK based company established in 2014 – to build capacity for new technologies such as environmental DNA (eDNA) metabarcoding. This molecular-based detection method offers the potential for a robust, scalable, and cost-e...

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(July 31, 2023) The first Marine Biodiversity Conference was held on 27 and 28 July 2023 in Maputo, at the Sea Museum, and tit also included an exhibition lasted till 2 August. This event is integrated in the Blue Future Project that is implemented in Mozambique by the Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) and its partners (ADPP, AMA, UEM, BIOFUND, ProAzul and InoM). The opening ceremony was attended by the Minister of Sea, Inland Waters and Fisheries, Lídia Cardoso, and the implementing partners of the Blue Futu...

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(July 11, 2023) Recent studies, carried out by MICOA, GTZ - PRODER, reveal that uncontrolled fires in Mozambique are responsible for the devastation of about 30 million hectares (ha) per year and the main causes of these fires are linked to human action, constituting 90% of the total fires carried out. The Niassa Special Reserve (NSR) has about 48 communities, where the vast majority are practitioners of itinerant agriculture, a practice characterised by deforestation and the use of fire. Aware of the ri...

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(July 05, 2023) The COMBO+ Programme, led by the Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) in partnership with the Foundation for Biodiversity Conservation (BIOFUND) and the National Directorate for Environment (DINAB), held between 29 and 30 June 2023 in Maputo City, the training of technicians of the Ministry of Land and Environment (MTA) on the Monitoring and Post-Evaluation Plans in the context of Environmental Management and Biodiversity Offset Management Plans (BOMP) (Module 5), which was attended by 28 partici...

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(June 28, 2023) Training of technicians from the Provincial Environment Services and Directorates and the Technical Commission for Environmental Impact Assessment of the southern region (Maputo, Gaza and Inhambane) on the importance of Key Biodiversity Areas (KBAs) for planning, spatial planning and environmental impact assessment of the country took place on 21-22 June 2023 in Maputo City. According to the Decree No. 51/2021 of July 19, KBAs are considered protected areas for birdlife and its habitats, and...

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(June 21, 2023) The Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) through the Project Mainstreaming Key Biodiversity Areas (KBAs), piloting Blue Carbon, and Strengthening Coral Reef Fisheries in Mozambique funded by SPEED, held between 15 and 16 June 2023 a capacity building workshop to the National Coordination Group of Key Biodiversity Areas, Species and Ecosystem Red Lists, which counted with 24 participants. The workshop was conducted by four WCS Mozambican technicians with experience in KBAs, with the aim of ...

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(June 19, 2023) WCS Mozambique was invited by TVM - the Mozambican national TV channel - for an interview on the World Oceans Day. Naseeba J. Sidat, Marine Program Assistant and master's Candidate at the UC Santa Cruz (UCSC) was WCS's representative.   Naseeba pointed out the marine biodiversity richness of Mozambique, where > 100 sharks and rays have been identified to date, 5 sea turtle species, the only viable population of dugong in the Western Indian Ocean, besides relevant populati...

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(June 03, 2023) The Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) in partnership with the Ministry of Land and Environment (MTA), represented by the National Directorate of Environment (DINAB) under the projects “Mainstreaming Key Biodiversity Areas (KBAs), piloting Blue Carbon, and Strengthening Coral Reef Fisheries in Mozambique “funded by the project SPEED and “Spatial Biodiversity Assessment, Prioritization and Planning (SBAPP)”, funded by AFD and FFEM, held between 22 and 26 May 2023 a traini...

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(May 25, 2023) The National Directorate of Environment (DINAB) in partnership with the Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) under the SBAPP project, held on 18 and 19 May 2023 in Maputo province, a seminar to share and internalize the decisions of the 15th Conference of the Parties (CoP15) to the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD), held in December 2022 in Montreal, Canada. Mozambique was represented at COP 15 by a multi-sectorial delegation consisting of Government Institutions, Civil Society and NGOs...

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(May 15, 2023) The partners of the COMBO+ program, the Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS), the Foundation for Biodiversity Conservation (BIOFUND) and the National Directorate of Environment (DINAB), in partnership with the company Portucel Mozambique, promoted an exchange of experiences visit involving government entities, academia, research entities and civil society, with the main objective of showcasing the implementation of best practices for the application of the Mitigation Hierarchy, following the proc...

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