This listening session / mini panel is a collaboration will focus on partnerships for the health of reefs and people. Collaboration and pilot project presentation, focusing on the following:
- Healthy Reefs for Healthy People (HRHP), an alliance with more than 75 regional partners that promotes projects that benefit reef health and resilience across the Mesoamerican Barrier Reef (MAR), and the Honduras Coral Reef Fund (HCRF), which is one of the first MPA co-managing organizations to join this initiative and has been instrumental for data collection in the Cayos Cochinos Marine Natural Monument (CCMNM).
- HRHP and HCRF’s piloting of the cultivation of king crab as a way of controlling macroalgae, which smothers corals and hinders new recruits. Native herbivorous species populations urgently need to increase across the MAR in order to tackle macroalgae and ensure the success of restoration programs. The king crab Mithrax spinosissimus is a very successful native herbivore that has received limited focus in reef ecological health studies and projects to date, compared to reef species such as parrotfish. HRHP and HCRF are looking to change this with their innovative pilot project.
- Honduras Seascape Partnership – HCRF’s vital coral reef conservation and research is reinforced by the Atlántida Seascape Initiative of the Seascape Partnership, conformed of five Honduran NGOs and international NGO Fauna & Flora. Since 2016, this partnership has worked on social and ecological connectivity across three MPAs and the unprotected waters between them.
Lead Organisation: Honduras Coral Reef Fund (HCRF)
Co-organisation(s): Fauna & Flora, Healthy Reefs for Healthy People (HRHP)
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