Grey literature | 2021
This report is a consolidation of in-country data gathered during 2020 in three Caribbean countries: Antigua and Barbuda, Grenada, and St. Lucia. For the purpose of this report, all regional data analysis is based on these countries only. Data collection encompassed three sectors — household and…
News | 27 نوفمبر, 2023
New report on High Seas Biodiversity Treaty gives accessible at-a-glance introduction
This introductory report's target audience is professionals from governments, civil society, private sector, and other stakeholders who know multilateral processes and treaties but are not high seas “BBNJ (biodiversity beyond national jurisdiction) experts”. The report is more digestible than…
Grey literature | 2023
High Seas Biodiversity Treaty Policy Brief
An Introduction to the Agreement under the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea on the conservation and sustainable use of marine biological diversity of areas beyond national jurisdiction
Artículo | 20 نوفمبر, 2023
Bajo el liderazgo de su presidente Benedicto Cordón, la Asociación de Pescadores Artesanales de Izabal (APSI) ha adoptado prácticas de pesca sostenible para contrarrestar la sobreexplotación de los recursos pesqueros, así como buenas prácticas empresariales para garantizar la sostenibilidad…
Artículo | 20 نوفمبر, 2023
Conformada en un 49% por mujeres indígenas, la Asociación de Pescadores de Medusa y Escama de Caratasca (APMEC) se destaca por su compromiso con las buenas prácticas de pesca, la transparencia de su gestión y su impacto positivo en las comunidades locales. Este emprendimiento de biocomercio es…
Story | 23 يونيو, 2023
New research on the co-benefits of marine protected areas for nature and people
CEESP Chair of People and the Ocean Specialist Group, Nathan Bennett, published an article titled Co-benefits of marine protected areas for nature and people on June 22 in Nature Sustainability. This research highlights the value of marine protected areas in both environmental…
Artículo | 11 مايو, 2023
Mejorar o acceder a una casa propia, cursar una carrera universitaria, brindar sustento y educación a sus hijos, estos son los sueños cumplidos de cuatro jóvenes de comunidades pesqueras del Caribe de Guatemala que se han formado y desempeñado como científicos comunitarios del Proyecto Regional…
Grey literature | 2023
Plastic Waste Free Islands Gender Study
To inform gender-responsive programming for the Plastic Waste Free Islands project, IUCN commissioned a study to provide an analysis of plastic pollution in the tourism, waste management, and fisheries sectors of the PWFI islands in the Caribbean (Antigua and Barbuda, Grenada, and Saint Lucia)…
Story | 16 مارس, 2023
From cleaner oceans to thriving communities: the economic impacts of plastic pollution
With support from the Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation (Norad), the Plastic Waste Free Islands project focused on six islands in the Pacific and the Caribbean regions: Fiji, Samoa, Vanuatu, Antigua and Barbuda, Grenada, and Saint Lucia. Three new economic briefs for the Caribbean,…
Grey literature | 2022
The impacts of marine plastics on the fisheries and tourism sectors in 2019 were estimated for Antigua and Barbuda, Grenada and Saint Lucia. Impact estimates were based on both plastic accumulation and leakage into the marine environment from these countries and other countries bordering the…