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(2010- 2011) Western Hemisphere Migratory Species Initiative WHMSI – OAS – FEMCIDI III Funded by FEMCIDI, the goal of the 2010- 2011 Western Hemisphere Migratory Species Initiative (WHMSI) training program is to build upon existing WHMSI and other migratory species efforts to significantly enhance the conservation of shared migratory species throughout the Americas by strengthening institutional and human capacity, political commitment, international cooperation, and public-private partnerships at regional, national and local levels. For this purpose the GS/OAS is working in partnership with five NGOs and Government Agencies to develop different regional capacity building activities. Incorporating climate adaptation into marine turtle conservation: capacity strengthening for planning and Implementation.
Coordinated by World Wildlife Fund Inc. (WWF)
Project Summary:
WWF, in collaboration with the Wider Caribbean Sea Turtle Conservation Network (WIDECAST), is helping to build capacity for climate change adaptation in coastal areas of Latin America and the Caribbean by focusing on habitats used by endangered marine turtles. In November 2010, 15 marine turtle conservation practitioners, marine resource managers, educators and students from 10 countries in the Wider Caribbean Region (WCR), attended a workshop at the 63rd Gulf and Caribbean Fisheries Institute Annual Meeting. The three‐day training workshop, hosted by WWF and WIDECAST and funded by CIDI/OAS, provided an opportunity to explore methods for incorporating climate change adaptation into ongoing conservation projects and to share tools for vulnerability assessment and adaptation planning. The workshop included presentation of WWF's Adaptation to Climate Change Toolkit, completed in 2009 as part of the Adaptation to Climate change for marine Turtles (ACT) project.
Workshop:
Click on the Picture to Access the Workshop full report! The workshop was designed to lead participants through the steps needed to incorporate climate change thinking into their existing management plans and field research projects. For each session, an oral presentation was followed by inclusive discussion or a practical exercise featuring tools that could be used at similar workshops convened by participants with their local partners and other stakeholders. The following section summarizes the main points from each session. For workshop presentations, please see separate folder. Sessions: 1- Climate change and coastal habitats 2- Incorporating climate adaptation into your work. 3- Vulnerability assessment: ecological mapping exercise 4. selecting and prioritizing adaptation options. 5- Beach monitoring 6- Communicating climate change 7- Planning next steps: participants presentations Complementarities:
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