#CaboVerdeLearnings: Young lemon sharks spend their time close to shore. This natural nursery in 🇨🇻 became major tourist attraction where baby 🦈 swim peacefully among visitors. Jobs for rental of plastic shoes, guides, souvenirs. Seems like win-win for nature & people www.youtube.com/watch?v=X6Ro...

#CaboVerdeLearnings: if you can't avoid a car, use it at least properly... Credit to biosFera 🇨🇻

🌊Markus Knigge🐟‬ ‪@oceanknigge.bsky.social‬
#CaboVerdeLearnings: To get project visitors up to speed, laminated fact sheets with community info, below-water photos etc. are highly useful. Nothing new for @tangnic.bsky.social, @oceansteinmann.bsky.social & @oceandreher.bsky.social

#CaboVerdeLearnings: We talked to hundreds of artisinal fishers in 🇨🇻 . All are with @greenpeace.eu 👇 in opposing 🇪🇺 fisheries agreement which supposedly 'preserves development of 🇨🇻 🎣 sector', 'strengthens🎣 governance' or 'protects marine environment' (1/2)

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Biosfera, partner of our @blueactionfund.org project in 🇨🇻, put snorkeling signs to mark an underwater trail in Mindelo beach with useful info on corals, fish and benthos. Cool idea which could easily be replicated! 👌

#CaboVerdeLearnings 🇨🇻: Swimming with turtles 🐢 is rather exciting (even if they are attracted with some 🐟 snacks):
🌊💶for communities
🌊jobs for numerous fishers
🌊fantastic awareness raising
📷 by @oceanthayne.bsky.social

#CaboVerdeLearnings 🇨🇻: 5 years ago no project I visited had grievance mechanism. Today, partners are proudly facilitating & managing complaints & recommendations (obviously, boxes only one tool). Thanks for supporting this process @oceanthayne.bsky.social & @oceanthyrza.bsky.social

#CaboVerdeLearnings: funding from 🇪🇺 fisheries agreement for🐟projects- 750k per year (?) -not spent transparently. No one knows which island& projects benefits. 🇨🇻 is fiti candidate since 2023, hopefully this is something high up in the discussions....

#CaboVerdeLearnings: project's grievance box produced from marine plastic pollution. 2 flies with one stone by 🇨🇻 biosFera. @oceanthayne.bsky.social

#CaboVerdeLearnings: 🇨🇻 has biggest aggregation of loggerhead turtles 🐢 in the world. Island of Sal alone same number as entire Mediterranean.

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In a fisheries community where the conditions are so rough that fishing is only possible every 2nd day, catch sizes are ⬇️ as is scarce arable land due to climate change, the young members will leave. Solution: work together to id suitable, climate-resilient livelihood options