Empowering the next generations is key to creating decision-makers who care for the sea. To date, we have trained over 460 primary, high-school and university students in 1-4-day hands-on field courses. The training included topics on fisheries-independent megafauna monitoring techniques for sharks, rays, and turtles. The longer field courses included longline preparation, deployment, animal handling, in-water transects, abundance estimation work, size estimation, baited remote underwater video set-up and deployment, data collection, and basic analytical techniques. Several of the students have gone on to work in the marine field.
Reef Health and Resilience: A Comprehensive Assessment of Coral and Fish Communities in Guna Yala
Coral reefs are among the most biodiverse ecosystems on the planet, providing essential services to marine life and coastal communities. However, these fragile ecosystems are
