Tag: Marine

33 nieuwe Important Marine Mammal Areas (IMMA’s) goedgekeurd in groeiend portfolio van mondiale oceaangebieden wachtend op natuurbehoudsmaatregelen

Er zijn 33 nieuwe Important Marine Mammal Areas (belangrijke zeezoogdiergebieden – IMMA’s)  geïdentificeerd en op de kaart[1] geplaatst in de Zuidwest-Atlantische Oceaan vanaf de Guianas, ten noorden van de Braziliaanse Amazone, tot het puntje van Tierra del Fuego, Argentinië. Dit is het eindresultaat van een proces van een jaar, met een intensieve vijfdaagse workshop van […]

Mangrove Design Thinking Workshop

A methodology to create innovative solutions Paramaribo, 7 April 2023. Written by Romke van der Lem en Lukas van den Oever. On Thursday, April 6th, the first Mangrove Design Thinking Workshop was held in Asewa Otono in Suriname. This workshop was organized by Green Heritage Fund Suriname (GHFS) and Monique Pool was the design thinking […]

Community Conservation of Mangroves – Knowledge Exchange for coordination and sustainability.

This component seeks to facilitate knowledge exchange between various stakeholders in community-centered interventions for the conservation of mangroves. The knowledge exchange has multiple dimensions and targets a broad range of stakeholders, partners, and the wider national and international community. This component will, for example, facilitate piloting a collective impact group approach for mangrove conservation in […]

Community Conservation of Mangroves – Training to strengthen Livelihoods.

This component seeks to develop a relevant curriculum and deliver training for Nickerie and Coronie. This training aims to support sustainable practices and livelihoods of micro-entrepreneurs and micro-enterprises that rely on the mangrove ecosystem. During prior consultations that the GHFS had with the targeted communities, priority training areas have been identified as follows: eco-tourism, honey […]

Community Conservation of Mangroves – Community & Stakeholder Engagement.

This key component of the Community Conservation of Mangroves project aims to develop content and execute activities that will build community and stakeholder awareness and active engagement in the conservation of mangrove ecosystems. Local schools will be a particular target for community awareness and engagement. School-based training and extra-curricular events will be organized for 150 […]

Community Conservation of Mangroves

The Green Heritage Fund Suriname, with funding from the IDB LAB, will pilot a model of Community Based Mangrove Management (CBMM) in the coastal districts, Coronie and Nickerie, of Suriname. Implementation of the pilot CBMM model will see the GHF advocating for mangrove preservation and conservation by way of awareness enhancing activities with community members […]

In 2050 more Plastic in the Ocean than Fish

Paramaribo – Thursday June 8th is World Oceans Day, a fact that Green Heritage Fund Suriname (GHFS) will commemorate with the recent film ‘A Plastic Ocean’. The work of the foundation these days is all within the framework of the ocean with the expo of the book with the same name “The Sea of ​​Suriname”  travelling through […]

The Sea of Suriname

“Suriname is one of the greenest countries in the world and we must protect and conserve our green country”, you may have heard this statement, but Suriname does not only consist of forests and rivers that need to be protected and preserved. What about the ‘blue’ that lies in front of our coast? As a child or […]