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MeetingMeeting documentVertical and horizontal behaviour of silky, oceanic whitetip and blue sharks in the western Indian Ocean 2013
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MeetingMeeting documentPost nesting migration of green turtle (Chelonia mydas) in the western Indian Ocean 2013
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No results found.Marine turtles do not recognize political boundaries, nor do they have regard for Exclusive Economic Zones (EEZ s), cooperative agreements, intertiol conventions, or memoranda of understanding between countries. So is it in the Southwest Indian Ocean (SWIO), a region that hosts some of the most important green turtle nesting sites in the world, most of which are isolated on remote islands (e.g. Europa and Glorieuses, Aldabra and Cosmoledo, Moheli and Mayotte). This region of the world is known t o have year round nesting of green turtles but all sites display a marked nesting season. However, very little is known about migratory pathways that sea turtles ply between their nesting and feeding grounds in this region where this species faces numerous threats such as fisheries interaction at both open sea and coastal waters. From 2009 to 2011, we deployed 81 satellite transmitters on nesting green turtle females during (d) and opposite (o) to the nesting peak in 5 important rookeries of the South West Indian Ocean (SWIO): Europa (Nd=10; No=10), Glorieuses (Nd= 10; No=10), Tromelin (Nd= 10; No=10), Mayotte (Nd=10; No=10) and Mohéli (Nd=7; No=3) and collected previous 24 old tracks in the area for a total of 105 tracks. First results showed that 39.7% of the tracked turtles used Madagascar costal foraging ground while more than 50% used the east African ones (Mozambique (32,0%), Kenya (3.8%), Tanzania (15,4%) and Somalia (2,5%)). It is worthwhile noting that the North Mozambique and South Tanzania remain the most important foraging ground for the tracked turtle (45% of the tracked turtles), but that they are mainly used by turtles tagged during the nesting season. On the other hand, we highlight here that green turtles also use a large range of foraging ground in the area (55% of the tagged turtles), some of them being hot spots (e.g. south of Maputo – Mozambique, Tulear lagoon – Madagascar). Spatial distribution estimation allowed identifying important year round coastal and oceanic migrating corridors: 2 oceanic corridors, (1) in the north of the Mozambique Channel (11°S - 14°S) and (2) the south of the Mozambique Chanel (17°S - 23°S), more particularly from the north of Europa to the north of Mozambique (38°E - 41°E); and 2 coastal corridors (1) The east African coast, between 16°S (Mozambique) and 7°S (Tanzania), and (2) all the west coast of Madagascar. The extreme north of Madagascar is also an important coastal migratory corridor The 105 tracked green turt les also crossed as many as nine different EEZs in the region before reaching their foraging grounds, which themselves are shared by six countries. Such spatial migrating pattern of adult green turtle, the temporal corridors and the regiol feeding hot spots identified are of high importance to implement targeted mitigating measures for artisal and industrial fisheries and encourage conservation on key foraging grounds.
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Book (stand-alone)High-profileState of knowledge of soil biodiversity - Status, challenges and potentialities
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No results found.There is increasing attention to the importance of biodiversity for food security and nutrition, especially above-ground biodiversity such as plants and animals. However, less attention is being paid to the biodiversity beneath our feet, soil biodiversity, which drives many processes that produce food or purify soil and water. This report is the result of an inclusive process involving more than 300 scientists from around the world under the auspices of the FAO’s Global Soil Partnership and its Intergovernmental Technical Panel on Soils, the Convention on Biological Diversity, the Global Soil Biodiversity Initiative, and the European Commission. It presents concisely the state of knowledge on soil biodiversity, the threats to it, and the solutions that soil biodiversity can provide to problems in different fields. It also represents a valuable contribution to raising awareness of the importance of soil biodiversity and highlighting its role in finding solutions to today's global threats. -
Book (series)FlagshipThe State of Food Security and Nutrition in the World 2020
Transforming food systems for affordable healthy diets
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