Red mundial de análisis de la vida silvestre oceánica
Brief Description:
The project is utilizing Baited Remote Underwater Video systems (BRUVS) consisting of underwater camera rigs that are being rolled out across the British Overseas Territories aimed to collect important biological information across the Caribbean, South Atlantic, Indian, Pacific and Southern Oceans, making it the world’s largest ocean wildlife monitoring system. The network is being set up as part of the UK Government Blue Belt programme – which covers more than 4 million square kilometres of ocean. The 66 BRUVS will be used to film and analyse data on many species, including white marlin, sailfish, silky sharks, black triggerfish, loggerhead turtles, Gould’s squid, bottlenose wedgefish and sea snakes. The Blue Belt Programme is being developed to raise compliance and enforcement thus ensuring that the pristine, unique and highly diverse marine environments will be conserved and sustainably managed into the future.
El proyecto utiliza sistemas de video submarino remoto cebados (BRUVS) que consisten en equipos de cámaras submarinas en los Territorios Británicos de Ultramar con el objetivo de recopilar información biológica importante en los océanos Caribe, Atlántico Sur, Índico, Pacífico y Austral, lo que lo convierte en el El sistema de monitoreo de vida silvestre oceánica más grande del mundo. La red se está estableciendo como parte del programa Blue Belt del gobierno del Reino Unido, que cubre más de 4 millones de kilómetros cuadrados de océano. Los 66 BRUVS se utilizarán para filmar y analizar datos de muchas especies, incluidos el marlín blanco, el pez vela, el tiburón sedoso, el pez ballesta negro, la tortuga boba, el calamar de Gould, el pez cuña mular y las serpientes marinas. El Programa Blue Beltse esta desarrollando para aumentar el cumplimiento y la aplicación, asegurando así que los entornos marinos prístinos, únicos y muy diversos se conservarán y gestionarán de manera sostenible en el futuro.
Lead Organization : Centre for Environment Fisheries and Aquaculture Science, UK
Project Profile Manager: Paul Whomersley
Contact Email: P.Whomersley@cefas.co.uk Contact Phone:
Partners: Marine Management Organization
Grant (USD):
$2,700,000.00
Total co-financing (USD):
$0.00
(Co) financing not originating from GEF:
Participating Country(s):
AnguillaAscensionBritish Antarctic TerritoryBritish Indian Ocean TerritoryCayman IslandsMontserratPitcairnSaint HelenaTristan da CunhaVirgin Islands (British)
Contributions to the 10-year CLME+ Strategic Action Programme (2015-2025)
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1. Enhance the regional governance arrangements for the protection of the marine environment
1.6. Enhance the capacity within and among arrangements to undertake and mainstream lessons learned and findings from monitoring,science and research in regional, sub-regional and national decision-making
1.10. Establish and/or enhance the data and information quality and collection and management capacity of the regional, sub-regional and nationalgovernance arrangements for the protection of the marine environment, including through the establishment of public-private partnerships
2. Enhance the regional governance arrangements for sustainable fisheries
3. Establish and operationalise a regional policy coordination mechanismfor ocean governance, with initial focus on shared Living Marine Resources
3.7. Facilitate the preparation of data and information products and the uptake of monitoring and research outputs by (sub)regional and national science-policy interfaces
4. Enhance the governance arrangements for ecosystem-based management for reefs and associated ecosystems
4.6. Establish and/or enhance the institutional structure and capacity of (sub-)regional and national arrangements for implementing management and conservation measures for reef ecosystems
4A. Enhance the governance arrangementsfor implementing an ecosystem approach for spiny lobster fisheries
4B. Enhance the governance arrangementsfor implementing an ecosystem approach for queen conch fisheries
5. Enhance the governance arrangements for implementing an ecosystem approach for pelagic fisheries
5A. Enhance the governance arrangements for implementing the ecosystem approach for flyingfish fisheries
5B. Enhance the governance arrangementsfor implementing an ecosystem approach for large pelagics fisheries
6. Implement EBM/EAF of the Guianas-Brazil continental shelf with special reference to the shrimp and groundfish fishery
Contributions to the 2030 UN Sustainable Development Agenda (SDG’s)
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1. End poverty in all its forms everywhere
2 End hunger, achieve food security and improved nutrition and promote sustainable agriculture
3 Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages
4 Ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all
5 Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls
6 Ensure availability and sustainable management of water and sanitation for all
7 Ensure access to affordable, reliable, sustainable and modern energy for all
8 Promote sustained, inclusive and sustainable economic growth, full and productive employment and decent work for all
9 Build resilient infrastructure, promote inclusive and sustainable industrialization and foster innovation
10 Reduce inequality within and among countries
11 Make cities and human settlements inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable
12 Ensure sustainable consumption and production patterns
13 Take urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts
14 Conserve and sustainably use the oceans, seas and marine resources for sustainable development
14.2 By 2020, sustainably manage and protect marine and coastal ecosystems to avoid significant adverse impacts, including by strengthening their resilience, and take action for their restoration in order to achieve healthy and productive oceans
14.5 By 2020, conserve at least 10 per cent of coastal and marine areas, consistent with national and international law and based on the best available scientific information
14.a Increase scientific knowledge, develop research capacity and transfer marine technology, taking into account the Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission Criteria and Guidelines on the Transfer of Marine Technology, in order to improve ocean health and to enhance the contribution of marine biodiversity to the development of developing countries, in particular small island developing States and least developed countries
15 Protect, restore and promote sustainable use of terrestrial ecosystems, sustainably manage forests, combat desertification, and halt and reverse land degradation and halt biodiversity loss
16 Promote peaceful and inclusive societies for sustainable development, provide access to justice for all and build effective, accountable and inclusive institutions at all levels
Other Regional and Global Commitments
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Anguilla Ascension British Antarctic Territory 
British Indian Ocean Territory 
Cayman Islands 
Montserrat 
Pitcairn 
Saint Helena Tristan da Cunha 
Virgin Islands (British) 
