Entries for May 2025

(May 28, 2025) The 23rd Edition of the Fishers’ Forum was held on November 19, 2024, in Kwale County, Mombasa, Kenya, under the theme, celebrating successes and restoring near-shore fisheries sustainability. The event highlighted the progress local fisher men and women, researchers, and policymakers made in creating a balance between marine conservation and human activity.    The Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) Kenya Marine Program annually organizes the Fishers’ Forum in part...

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(May 27, 2025) To protect some of the world’s most climate-resilient coral reefs and support the communities that rely on them, the Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) Kenya Marine Program is implementing the Miamba Yetu: Sustainable Reef Investments Programme, a pioneering blended finance initiative that brings together grant funding and private capital to address urgent conservation and development needs in East Africa. The Miamba Yetu Programme—named from the Swahili phrase meaning “Our...

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(May 26, 2025) WCS Kenya partnered with Wildlife Research and Training Institute (WRTI), Kenya Wildlife Service (KWS), Bahari Hai, Coastal Oceans Research and Development in the Indian Ocean (CORDIO), and A-Rocha Kenya to undertake Baited Remote Underwater Video Surveys (BRUVs) in Kenya’s coastal marine waters as part of the ongoing national wildlife census.    The activity took place from February 12 – 21, 2025 with a total of 120 deployments in the regions of Kisite, Watamu ...

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(May 20, 2025) WCS works with fisher communities to identify potential locations for marine conservation and voluntary community fisheries closures along Kenyan Coast   Mombasa, Kenya | May 2025 — In an effort to safeguard marine biodiversity and sustain small-scale fisheries along Kenya’s coastline, researchers, in collaboration with local fisher communities, have identified 170 potential areas for voluntary fisheries closures, known locally as tengefus.   The results were shar...

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