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Nguna -Pele Marine & Land Protected Area Network Invasive Control

Nguna -Pele Marine & Land Protected Area Network Invasive Control. Vanuatu. Republic of Vanuatu, South Pacific. Website: http://www.marineprotectedarea.com.vu Email: marineprotectedarea@gmail.com Phone contact: Tatu Whitely, Chairman 7102837.

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Nguna -Pele Marine & Land Protected Area Network Invasive Control

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  1. Nguna-PeleMarine & Land Protected Area NetworkInvasive Control Vanuatu Republic of Vanuatu, South Pacific Website: http://www.marineprotectedarea.com.vu Email: marineprotectedarea@gmail.com Phone contact: Tatu Whitely, Chairman 7102837 Map & Flag Credit: http://www.vivh.com/vanuatuff.html

  2. NPMLPA Background: • A Locally Managed Network of Marine and Land Areas (not a single conservation area) • 16 Villages working in collaboration with each other • Established in 2003 when 4 villages on Nguna and Pele came together with similar goals for resource management.

  3. Mission Statement: • The Nguna Pele MPA promotes good land and sea natural resource management in order to minimize overharvest and protect natural resources, ensuring their existence for future generations, while still meeting the resource needs of the Nguna-Pele community today.

  4. From wanemNPMLPA Network ia? • Ol problem olikambigwantumasblong wan velejnomo I solvem: invasive species, climate change, overfishing, divelopmen • No katgudfalasapotoltaem long gavmen I ko long risosmanajmen long level blongevrikomuniti, olvelejolinomowantemweit long wan grupaotsideblongkam help • SO: Nguna-Pele Network hemi stanapblonggivim help long yumibakagentru long wok tugetablongsolvemol problem blongrisosmanajmen.

  5. Crown of Thorns

  6. The Management Solutions 1. Community Cleanup Campaigns • 4 campaigns: • February 2010 (5 days, 30 fishermen) - 10,850 COTs removed • September 2010 (1 day, 10 fishermen) – 2,800 removed • March 2011 (3 days, 25 fishermen) – 11,300 removed • June 2012 (2 days, 20 fishermen – 6, 120 removed • Prizes given to highest yielding fishermen (e.g. wheel barrows, shovels, rice etc)

  7. The Management Solutions 2. Composting with COTs • Background: • Pele Island has very poor, sandy soils • SPC-GIZ established a forest nursery for erosion control in 2011, required good quality soil • Trial and error using COTs for composing

  8. Using COTs for Compost Key Steps: 1. Must be weathered for AT LEAST 2 months, either exposed or buried in shallow holes • Weathered to remove salt!!! 2. Starfish should then be cut into small pieces (or ground up) and put into a composter 3. COT pieces should be mixed with leaves, soil or organic matter; left to compost for 3-6 months, regular aeration and mixing

  9. COT Lessons Learned Technical Lessons Learned • When properly cured, COTs make good compost for seedling nurseries and food gardens • Keep COTs away from village area after harvesting due to the bad smell • Make sure that salt is fully washed out by weathering for at least 3 weeks before composting • Grind or chop the COT into small pieces before composting with soil and other organic matter. • Incentives must be available for divers to collect COTs (competition prizes, economically valuable compost etc )

  10. African Snail Cleanup • Week-Long Competition: • Children + adults were encouraged to collect the Giant African Snail • Snails for each person weighed each day and the highest collectors were entered into a competition. • Total collected= 618.7 kilos of African snail • The overall individual winner was Mr. Kalmelu Sisi with 87.3 kilos

  11. WanemNetwork Imekem : • Network hemi no karemaot right blongolwanwan man • Environmental Awareness for adults and children. • Help individual villages develop good, respected management plans and enforcement. • Support resource monitoring (Reef Check, coconut crabs etc) • Promote ecotourism income generation both for our organization and individual villages • Manage and prevent spread of invasive species • Bring villages together to help resolve disputes. • Doorway long ol National and International stakeholders (gavmen, NGO) to help villages get the support they need.

  12. 100s Of Lessons Learned • RisosManajmen hand book & DVD • FAD manual • Food security hand book • Website & YouTube

  13. Challenges blocontroemInvasives lo NPMLPA: • Community support I stapko up and doan (fulapcommitmen) • Controleminvasivesinobringim income (olsemolnaraaktivitiblonetwok) • Controlem invasive I nidimplantefolowup, ino wan taemaktivitinomo (mad ripitimplantemo man inomointeres) • No katsapotoltaem I kam long Gavmen (fisheries I criticisem NPMLPA lo olteknik we mifala I divelopem) • External sapot (manimoteknikol) hemi up modaon

  14. Invasive Species Lessons Learned: • Bringing many villages together to control a pest is not always easy • Some villages are more ready than others. • You must understand and work with inter-village dispute history. • Some villages have more invasive problems resources than others (bush vs solwotavelejes) • Mas faenemol way blongmekem invasive control hemi fun mo interesting! • Mas ripitimolaktivitiplante, ino wan taemnomo

  15. Ta ParuaAngawo Moro Punsiko!www.marineprotectedarea.com.vu

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