COAST: COnservation of mArine ecosystems around Santo AnTão, Cabo Verde: implications for policy and society

海岸：佛得角圣安托周围海洋生态系统的保护：对政策和社会的影响

• 批准号: 491450544
• 负责人: Dr. Henk-Jan Hoving
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: Laboratoire des Sciences de l´Environnement Marin (LEMAR)
• 依托单位国家: 德国
• 项目类别: Research Grants
• 资助国家: 德国
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://gepris.dfg.de/gepris/projekt/491450544?language=en
• 关键词: COAST; COnservation; mArine; ecosystems; around

The Republic of Cabo Verde is an African archipelago, which depends largely on marine resources. Their coastal areas ensure human wellbeing through resources availability (e.g. food) and jobs. However, coastal regions in Cabo Verde are highly exposed to natural hazards and to multiple pressures associated with anthropogenic activities, including reclamation of wetlands for agriculture, water contamination and plastic pollution. They are, thus in an enormous need for sustainable development of activity sectors linked to the sea, i.e. Blue Growth. Cabo Verde is a country where Blue Growth can help to contribute with solutions for current issues, such as high poverty rates, while building on the long tradition of local economical use of the marine environment. However, no valuable baseline knowledge on the environmental status of their marine ecosystems is available, hampering the development of measures ensuring their sustainable use, management, conservation and restoration. Information on marine habitats is scarce and there is no integrated evaluation of marine resources to support knowledge-based regulations and guidelines for their sustainable use, in line with the national development trends. Santo Antão has the highest poverty rate of the Archipelago and income inequalities and is highly vulnerable to extreme natural phenomena.The COAST project will significantly contribute to understanding the status and functioning of the ocean system around Santo Antão island in Cabo Verde, as its contribution to the country’s economy. The project aims to achieve 5 main objectives: a) to characterize and map pelagic and benthic habitats, as well as anthropogenic pressures of Santo Antão, b) to estimate patterns of diversity in marine communities in relation to habitat features, c) to assess the vulnerability of the studied communities to both environmental and anthropogenic pressures, through the application of risk assessment models, d) to implement conservation and restoration actions for selected habitats/ecosystems based on the results of the first three objectives, e) to provide baseline data that inform policymakers, authorities, institutions and practitioners towards effective marine conservation and restoration in these habitats and demonstrate the repeatability of the proposed approach in other regions. Dedicated scientific surveys will be conducted to collect data from the marine ecosystems around Santo Antão under a transdisciplinary and integrated framework, with a specific focus on selected areas of interest. We will apply state-of-the-art technology, combining visual and acoustic observations with physical sampling, modelling and remote sensing. COAST expects to improve current knowledge on marine habitats of Santo Antão island and to provide efficient management recommendations for their sustainable development, along with mitigation plans for the effects of global changes, in line with the needs of stakeholders and local communities.

卡波佛得角共和国是一个非洲群岛，主要依靠海洋资源。它们的沿海地区通过提供资源（如粮食）和就业机会确保人类福祉。然而，卡波佛得角的沿海地区极易受到自然灾害的影响，并面临与人类活动相关的多重压力，包括开垦湿地用于农业、水污染和塑料污染。因此，他们非常需要与海洋有关的活动部门的可持续发展，即蓝色增长。在卡波佛得角，蓝色增长可以帮助解决当前的问题，如高贫困率，同时建立在当地经济利用海洋环境的悠久传统之上。但是，关于这些国家海洋生态系统的环境状况，没有任何有价值的基线知识，妨碍了制定确保其可持续利用、管理、养护和恢复的措施。关于海洋生境的资料很少，也没有对海洋资源进行综合评价，以支持根据国家发展趋势制定以知识为基础的可持续利用海洋资源的条例和准则。圣安唐岛是佛得角群岛中贫困率最高、收入最不平等的地区，极易受到极端自然现象的影响。COAST项目将大大有助于了解卡波佛得角圣安唐岛周围海洋系统的状况和功能，为该国经济做出贡献。该项目旨在实现5个主要目标：（a）描述和绘制圣安唐的水层和海底生境以及人为压力的特征，（B）估计海洋群落与生境特征有关的多样性模式，（c）通过应用风险评估模型，评估所研究的群落对环境和人为压力的脆弱性，d）根据前三个目标的结果，对选定的生境/生态系统采取养护和恢复行动，e）提供基线数据，为决策者、主管部门、机构和从业人员提供信息，以便在这些生境中进行有效的海洋养护和恢复，并证明拟议的方法在其他区域的可重复性。将进行专门的科学调查，在跨学科和综合框架下收集圣安唐周围海洋生态系统的数据，特别侧重于选定的感兴趣区域。我们将采用最先进的技术，将视觉和声学观测与物理采样、建模和遥感相结合。海岸计划预计将根据利益攸关方和当地社区的需要，改进目前对圣安唐岛海洋生境的了解，并为其可持续发展提供有效的管理建议，沿着全球变化影响的缓解计划。