RESCQ Restoration of Ecosystem Services and Coral Reef Quality
Restauración de los servicios ecosistemicos y la calidad de los arrecifes de coral
Brief Description:
The project will restore Elkhorn (Acropora palmata) and Staghorn (A. cervicornis) coral reef zones by establishing a coral nursery on each of the four islands to grow coral fragment and transplantation at selected restoration sites. Genotyping and monitoring of the resilience of coral fragments will be used to maintain genetic diversity within the restored colonies and ensure that the most resilient fragments are transplanted to the restoration sites. Establishing multiple small, genetically diverse populations that will, in time, become sexually reproductive can contribute to species recovery, especially in areas of significant parent population declines. A practical manual for coral reef restoration will be developed to enable the approach to be replicated throughout the region. The project will work to ensure that the nursery facilitates established on each of the islands are self-sufficient and thus able to continue the work started by the project. This is a BEST 2 initiative project.
El proyecto restaurará las zonas de arrecifes de coral cuerno de alce (Acropora palmata) y cuerno de ciervo (A. cervicornis) mediante el establecimiento de un vivero de coral en cada una de las cuatro islas para hacer crecer fragmentos de coral y trasplantarlas a los sitios de restauración seleccionados. Se utilizará el genotipo y el monitoreo de la resiliencia de los fragmentos de coral para mantener la diversidad genética dentro de las colonias restauradas y garantizar que los fragmentos más resilientes se trasplanten a los sitios de restauración. El establecimiento de múltiples poblaciones pequeñas, genéticamente diversas que, con el tiempo, se volverán sexualmente reproductivas puede contribuir a la recuperación de las especies, especialmente en áreas de disminución significativa de la población de padres. Se desarrollará un manual práctico para la restauración de los arrecifes de coral que permita replicar el enfoque en toda la región. El proyecto trabajará para garantizar que las instalaciones de vivero establecidas en cada una de las islas sean autosuficientes y, por lo tanto, puedan continuar el trabajo iniciado por el proyecto. Este es un proyecto de iniciativa BEST 2.
Lead Organization : WUR
Donor: European Commission Directorate General for International Cooperation (DG-DEVCO)
Project Profile Manager: Erik Meesters
Contact Email: Erik.Meesters@wur.nl Contact Phone:
Partners: Nature Foundation St. Maarten; Saba Conservation Foundation; St. Eustatius National Parks; Turks & Caicos Reef Fund
Grant (USD):
$436,749.00
Total co-financing (USD):
$43,823.00
(Co) financing not originating from GEF:
Participating Country(s):
SabaSint EustatiusSint MarteenTurks and Caicos Islands
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
1.5. Establish and/or enhance the capacity of the regional,sub-regional and national governance arrangements for the involvement of civil society in the implementation of the EBM/EAF approach (IGOs,NGOs,CBOs,private sector...)
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
1.11. Establish and/or enhance the capacity of the regional, sub –regional and national governance arrangements for the monitoring, assessment and reporting on the state of the marine environment
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
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.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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