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Best Practice Code of Conduct for Manta Ray Tourism

After several years of research conducted in the Maldives, the Manta Trust Team have developed a Best Practice Code of Conduct for Manta Ray Tourism. These guidelines outline how divers and snorkelers should behave in-water, to both enhance their experience and to ensure their presence does not disturb the mantas they encounter. In addition, it includes recommendations for tourism operators on how best to approach and depart manta aggregation sites, and how to help their crew manage a manta excursion. 

Through the Manta Trust's,  how to Swim with Manta Rays initiative, they have adapted the Manta Tourism Code of Conduct for use in the real world. They have distilled its contents into a freely-available, multi-language Media Kit, that includes a 10-Step Guide and a short educational film. The have 'also compiled a growing list of tourism operators that are committed to sustainable manta tourism. Through this dedicated website, their goal is to equip operators and tourists with the tools and information they need, to make their excursions truly sustainable for the gentle giants we all know and love.

For more information please logo on to https://swimwithmantas.org/

MEE, EPA meets BR OFFICE

A meeting was held today between Ministry of Environment and Energy (MEE), Environment Protection Agency (EPA), Baa Atoll Conservation Fund (BACF) and Baa Atoll Biosphere Reserve Office (BR OFFICE).
 
Director General of EPA, Mr. Ibrahim Naeem, Director General of MEE, Mr. Mohamed Zahir, Permanent Secretary of MEE, Mr. Ajwad Musthafa, MD of BACF Mr. Abdulla Shibau and the Acting Officer in-Charge of BR OFFICE (Outreach Officer), Mr. Shafee Ali together with Director of Administration of MEE Mr. Adam Usman were present in this meeting.
 
The main purpose of the meeting was to update MEE of work undertaken by BR Office and to discuss the issues and challenges faced in running BR Office. 
 
The next meeting is scheduled for end of Quarter 4, 2017.
 

2017 MAB Youth Forum

Young people are the future of Biosphere reserves, and they should be given a voice in shaping their territory and defining their engagement in the Man and the Biosphere (MAB) Programme of UNESCO.
 
The MAB Secretariat felt, therefore, the need to offer, together with the Regional Bureau in Venice, an opportunity for all young people who care about the special territories in which they live, to become actors in the MAB Programme and to ensure the sustainable development of their communities in line with the Lima Action Plan. This initiative, announced for the first time during the 4th World Congress of Biosphere Reserves in Lima, Peru, has been welcomed by an ovation!
 
In this regard, Conservation of Baa Atoll Biosphere Reserve office Ahmed Shan will  represent Baa Atoll Biosphere in the upcoming MAB Youth Forum organized by UNESCO. 
 
The Forum will be held in the city of Delta Po, Italy from 17 September to 21st September 2017.

 

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  2. Ranger Training Program for PA Teams of MAldives
  3. Environment Ministry meets LAM
  4. Financial Consultant meets BACF
  5. Training Workshop on CITES for Customs Officers undertaken

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