The BIOFUND Virtual Library is an online archive of information on Mozambique’s biodiversity, organized along the lines suggested by the Convention on Biodiversity’s Clearing House Mechanism. The Virtual Library will strive to make available all the documents, studies, reports, articles, educational and communications materials, maps and digital files that have been produced, to serve as a repository of our collective institutional memory as a conservation community. The usefulness of the Virtual Library will improve the more we share amongst ourselves. If you have any materials that are not currently part of the Virtual Library, please click on "Add Document" and become a contributor.
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Author
Year of Publication
Deepwater Exploration Drilling Operations in the Rovuma Offshore Area 1, Mozambique
IMPACTO
2008
Cabo Delgado
Anadarko Moçambique Área 1, Lda
Anadarko Moçambique Área 1, Lda (AMA1) signed an Exploration and Production Concession (EPC) contract with the Government of the Republic of Mozambique for Offshore Area 1 (Area 1) in the Rovuma Basin. The EPC contract gives AMA1 exclusive rights to explore for and produce commercial quantities of hydrocarbons in the block. As part of the agreement AMA1 has committed to undertake 2D and 3D seismic surveys and to drill a minimum of seven wells, with a minimum of four in water depths greater than 200m. The main objective of the drilling phase is to determine if the identified prospects (arising from the seismic survey1 initiated in January 2008) have hydrocarbons in commercial quantities. The exploratory drilling is a temporary activity.
English
No Restrictions
Marine Biodiversity
Environmental Impact Assessment, Environmental Management Plans, Biodiversity Counterbalance Plans, and the like
Impact Assessment
Quirimbas National Park
Deepwater Exploration Drilling Operations in the Rovuma Offshore Area 1, Mozambique
Climate change impact on mangrove ecosystem and development of an adaptation strategy for Quirimbas National Park
Nicolau, D.
2015
Cabo Delgado
MMF MCO
This study was undertaken by WWF under the climate change adaption programme implemented in the Quirimbas National Park (QNP), which preserves one of the largest mangrove areas in the region. This FFEM project is aimed to perform a mangrove ecosystem assessment for Quirimbas National Park (QNP) in order to understand the mangrove forest biophysical and anthropogenic dynamic in the context of climate change and guide the park administration and local communities to the development of an adaptation strategy for climate change for QNP.
English
No Restrictions
Coastal Biodiversity
Reports, Studies, Biodiversity Baselines and Evaluations
Climate Change and Biodiversity; Protected Areas
Quirimbas National Park
Climate change impact on mangrove ecosystem and development of an adaptation strategy for Quirimbas National Park
Impact of climate change on miombo woodlands ecosystems in Quirimbas National Park
Ribeiro, N. et al
2015
Cabo Delgado
1991-2013
CEAGRE
The Miombo Ecoregion covers approximately 3.6 million km2 in eleven countries of Central, Eastern and Southern Africa. The region is biologically rich and diverse both in terms of plant and animal species. In Mozambique the miombo woodlands occur to the North of the Save River up to the Rovuma River (i.e. the border with Tanzania) and occupy approximately two-thirds of the national forested area (Marzoli, 2007). It is highly important both ecologically and socio-economically as it provides goods and services for over 50% of the population.
English
No Restrictions
Coastal Biodiversity
Reports, Studies, Biodiversity Baselines and Evaluations
Climate Change and Biodiversity
Quirimbas National Park
Impact of climate change on miombo woodlands ecosystems in Quirimbas National Park
Vulnerability and Capacity Assessment Methodology
Pulwarty, R. & Hutchinson, N.
2009
N/A
CCCCC
The Mainstreaming Adaptation to Climate Change (MACC) Project under the Caribbean Community Climate Change Centre (CCCCC) is a regional effort funded through the Global Environment Facility (GEF). The project objective is to facilitate the creation of an enabling environment for climate change adaptation in CARICOM states. The participating countries are: Antigua and Barbuda; Bahamas; Barbados; Belize; Dominica; Grenada; Cooperative Republic of Guyana; Jamaica; St. Kitts and Nevis; Saint Lucia; St. Vincent and the Grenadines; and Trinidad and Tobago.
English
No Restrictions
General
Project Document, Project Reports and Evaluations
Climate Change and Biodiversity; Threats to Biodiversity
None
Vulnerability and Capacity Assessment Methodology
Using Analysis of Climate Change Vulnerability and Adaptive Capacity for Program Decision-Making: Lessons from CARE Ethiopia’s Experience
Dazé, A.
2014
N/A
CARE Ethiopia
Recognizing the implications of climate change for poverty reduction and social justice in Ethiopia, CARE Ethiopia is taking concrete action to integrate climate change across its program portfolio. Participatory analysis of climate change vulnerability and adaptive capacity has proven to be an important first step, providing valuable insights into rural people’s experiences of climate change, how climate-related shocks and stresses affect their livelihoods and how they are currently responding. This analysis, conducted with communities and local stakeholders, has enabled CARE and its partners to better understand the opportunities for adaptation and the barriers people face in increasing their resilience and adaptive capacity.
English
No Restrictions
General
Project Document, Project Reports and Evaluations
Climate Change and Biodiversity; Sustainable Use of Biodiversity
None
Using Analysis of Climate Change Vulnerability and Adaptive Capacity for Program Decision-Making: Lessons from CARE Ethiopia’s Experience
Climate Risk and Vulnerability: A HANDBOOK FOR SOUTHERN AFRICA
Davis, C.
2011
N/A
Council for Scientific and Industrial Research
At the time of writing, the 17th Conference of the Parties (COP17) to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) approaches. Unprecedented global and regional attention is currently being directed towards climate variability and change. Whatever the outcome of the international negotiations, southern Africa will largely have to take upon itself the responsibility of understanding and responding to climate change. Many promising initiatives in this regard have, indeed, long been underway on the subcontinent. This handbook represents a contribution to efforts in southern Africa to better understand climate variability and change, likely impacts and possible responses.
English
No Restrictions
General
Project Document, Project Reports and Evaluations
Biological and Cultural Diversity; Climate Change and Biodiversity
None
Climate Risk and Vulnerability: A HANDBOOK FOR SOUTHERN AFRICA
Synthesis report. INGC Climate Change Report: Study on the impact of climate change on disaster risk in Mozambique
Mozambique has a coastline of almost 2,700km. Approximately 20.5 million people, more than 60% of the total population, live in coastal areas. In many places this consists of lowlands with sandy beaches, estuaries and mangroves. Survival and everyday life in these areas depends to a large extent on local resources, such as rain-fed farming and fishing, whilst infrastructure is weak or even non-existent. These conditions mean a high vulnerability of both people and landscape to tropical cyclones and sea level rise (Mavume, 2009). Of particular concern is the tendency for people to migrate to the coastal zone, thus placing more people, infrastructure and services at risk.
English
No Restrictions
General
Official Government Document
Climate Change and Biodiversity; Threats to Biodiversity
None
Synthesis report. INGC Climate Change Report: Study on the impact of climate change on disaster risk in Mozambique
Policy frameworks for adaptation to climate change in coastal zones: the case of the gulf of Mexico
Levina, E.
2006
N/A
OECD
This document was prepared by the OECD and IEA Secretariats in response to the Annex I Expert Group on the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). The Annex I Expert Group oversees development of analytical papers for the purpose of providing useful and timely input to the climate change negotiations. These papers may also be useful to national policy-makers and other decision-makers. In a collaborative effort, authors work with the Annex I Expert Group to develop these papers.
English
No Restrictions
General
Project Document, Project Reports and Evaluations
Sustainable Use of Biodiversity
None
Policy frameworks for adaptation to climate change in coastal zones: the case of the gulf of Mexico
Review of climate change adaptation methods and tools
Schipper, L. et al.
2010
N/A
MRC Technical Pape
Climate change is an unavoidable challenge that society will have to deal with over coming decades. For developing countries, the task is particularly daunting. The process of adapting to new conditions, stresses and natural hazards that result from climate change will require additional interventions. Although most communities have some ability to respond to changes and extreme climatic events, the expected impacts of climate change will exceed this capacity almost in all cases.
English
No Restrictions
General
Reports, Studies, Biodiversity Baselines and Evaluations
Climate Change and Biodiversity
None
Review of climate change adaptation methods and tools
Planning and Management for sustainable development of inland aquaculture In Angola
Silva, E.
2005
N/A
IPA
Responsible and sustainable aquaculture in Angola is one of the government’s most important objectives as a means increasing food security and economic development. This study provides a clear understanding of the current status of aquaculture in Angola and describes different aspects that shall be considered for suitable and viable aquaculture development. In order to achieve this goal three objectives were developed. The study evaluated 11 native freshwater species, previously considered by Fishbase and selected as suitable for inland aquaculture in Angola.
English
No Restrictions
Marine Biodiversity
Peer-reviewed article
Economics, Trade and Incentive Measures
None
Planning and Management for sustainable development of inland aquaculture In Angola
Decision-making for climate resilient livelihoods and risk reduction: A Participatory Scenario Planning approach
CARE International & ALP
2012
N/A
CARE
Changes in rainfall amounts and seasonal patterns are already being experienced in many parts of the world, including Sub-Saharan Africa, creating problems for vulnerable farmers and other land users in securing their livelihoods, and increasing the risks they face. The frequency and intensity of extreme climatic events such as heat waves and erratic heavy rainfalli, as well as the long term chronic effects of higher temperatures are set to increase. The effects of these climatic changes will become even more pronounced in the futureii, particularly in Sub-Saharan Africa where livelihoods and ecosystems are highly sensitive to changes in climate.
English
No Restrictions
General
Reports, Studies, Biodiversity Baselines and Evaluations
Climate Change and Biodiversity
None
Decision-making for climate resilient livelihoods and risk reduction: A Participatory Scenario Planning approach
The coastal zone of ghana: vulnerability and adaptation assessment to climate change
Armah, A.
2005
N/A
English
No Restrictions
Coastal Biodiversity
Presentations
Climate Change and Biodiversity
None
The coastal zone of ghana: vulnerability and adaptation assessment to climate change
Understanding vulnerability of coastal communities to climate change related risks
DOLAN, A. & WALKER, I.
2003
N/A
Journal of Coastal Research
This paper discusses the concept of vulnerability as characterized in the climate change literature and presents a framework for assessing adaptive capacity. The framework recognizes inherent susceptibilities of humanenvironment systems exposed to climate variability and change. As climate change impacts are unevenly distributed among and within nations, regions, communities and individuals due to differential exposures and vulnerabilities, the framework highlights determinants of adaptive capacity at the local scale and situates them within larger regional, national and international settings.
English
No Restrictions
Coastal Biodiversity
Peer-reviewed article
Climate Change and Biodiversity; Sustainable Use of Biodiversity; Community Use of Biodiversity
None
Understanding vulnerability of coastal communities to climate change related risks
Integrating Community and Ecosystem-Based Approaches in Climate Change Adaptation Responses
Girot, P. et al.
s.d.
N/A
ELAN
This paper is the result of extensive discussions led by adaptation professionals coming from different backgrounds and facilitated by the Ecosystem and Livelihoods Adaptation Network (ELAN).ii ELAN is an innovative alliance between two conservation organisations (International Union for the Conservation of Nature [IUCN] and WWF) and two development organisations (CARE International and the International Institute for Environment and Development [IIED]).
English
No Restrictions
General
Reports, Studies, Biodiversity Baselines and Evaluations
Climate Change and Biodiversity; Sustainable Use of Biodiversity
None
Integrating Community and Ecosystem-Based Approaches in Climate Change Adaptation Responses
Dugong abundance and distribution in the Bazaruto Archipelago, Mozambique
Findlay, K.; Cockcroft, V. & Guissamulo, A.
2011
N/A; Inhambane
2006-2007
African Journal of Marine Science, 33(3): 441–452
English
No Restrictions
Marine Biodiversity
Peer-reviewed article
Biological and Cultural Diversity; Identification, Monitoring, Indicators and Assessments; Protected Areas; Tourism and Biodiversity; Threats to Biodiversity
Bazaruto Archipelago National Park
Dugong abundance and distribution in the Bazaruto Archipelago, Mozambique
Plano de Maneio de Parque Nacional de Banhine
DNAC-MITUR
2010
N/A; Gaza
2010-2015
MITUR
Este plano de maneio com estratégias de implementação, planos de Turismo e de Negócios para o Parque Nacional Banhine foi escrito utilizando uma metodologia participativa, que envolve todos os intervenientes relevantes relacionados com o maneio do parque, incluindo as comunidades que vivem dentro e ao redor do parque.
Portuguese
No Restrictions
Forest Biodiversity; Other Terrestrial Biodiversity; Inland Waters and Wetlands Biodiversity
PA Management Document
Legal and Political (Laws, Regulations, Action Plans, Strategies, etc.); Protected Areas
Banhine National Park
Plano de Maneio de Parque Nacional de Banhine
MT NAMULI, Mozambique: Biodiversity and Conservation
Timberlake, J. et al.
2009
Zambézia
2007 - 2009
Darwin Initiative Award
Mt Namuli at 2419 m is the high point of a massif and associated granite peaks situated near Gurué town, Zambézia Province in north-central Mozambique, and the second-highest peak in the country. It is surrounded at lower altitudes by extensive tea plantations, now being rehabilitated, and has perhaps the best agro-ecological conditions in the country. Increasingly, people are settling in the area and slowly encroaching up the slopes. Although recognised for many years as being of particular biological interest, Namuli is not formally protected, is little-explored and the conservation threats to its biodiversity have not yet been properly documented.
English
No Restrictions
Mountain Biodiversity
Reports, Studies, Biodiversity Baselines and Evaluations
Biological and Cultural Diversity
None
MT NAMULI, Mozambique: Biodiversity and Conservation
MT MABU, Mozambique: Biodiversity and Conservation
Timberlake, J. et al.
2012
Zambézia
2009-2012
Darwin Initiative
Located in north-central Mozambique, 95 km south-east of Mt Mulanje in southern Malawi, Mt Mabu is a granitic massif rising to 1700 m. Much of it is covered in exceptionally welldeveloped and little-disturbed moist forest. It was first explored biologically in 2005 as part of a Kew-led project funded through the UK's Darwin Initiative, followed by a large expedition under the same project in 2008.
English
No Restrictions
Mountain Biodiversity
Reports, Studies, Biodiversity Baselines and Evaluations
Biological and Cultural Diversity
None
MT MABU, Mozambique: Biodiversity and Conservation
The Eastern African Marine Ecoregion: A large-scale approach to the management of biodiversity
Kamau, I.
2002
Inhambane; Maputo (cidade)
WWF
The Eastern African Marine Ecoregion is an area stretching from southern Somalia to the Natal shores of South Africa.This 4,600km coastline is host to an ever-growing population of 22 million, most of whom depend on the coastal seas for their sustenance, business and leisure.This coastal region is referred to as an ‘ecoregion’ because of the way the marine and coastal habitats are linked, both physically and ecologically.
English
No Restrictions
Marine Biodiversity
Reports, Studies, Biodiversity Baselines and Evaluations
Sustainable Use of Biodiversity
Bazaruto Archipelago National Park; Ponta do Ouro Partial Marine Reserve
The Eastern African Marine Ecoregion: A large-scale approach to the management of biodiversity
Prawn Fisheries
Tenreiro, J.
2006
N/A
FFP
The fisheries sector in Mozambique accounts for about 4% of GDP and 28% of foreign exchange earnings. It is estimated that the population derive 50% of their animal protein intake from fish and fish products (current per capita consumption of fish at 6.9 kg per annum). This figure is significantly increased along the coastal zone where fishing communities rely mostly on daily fish catch for subsistence and animal protein input. The sector provides employment to over 100,000 people as primary activity, and over more than three to four times this number in supporting services.
English
No Restrictions
Marine Biodiversity
Official Government Document
Sustainable Use of Biodiversity
Quirimbas National Park; Bazaruto Archipelago National Park; Ponta do Ouro Partial Marine Reserve; Cabo de São Sebastião Total Protection Zone; Primeiras e Segundas Islands Environmental Protection Area
Prawn Fisheries
Primeiras e Segundas: Making two worlds one
CARE-WWF
2008
Nampula; Zambézia
CARE-WWF
Traditionally, along the northern coast Mozambique, men and women go their separate ways each morning. Husbands head out to sea, casting nets and fishing lines into the Indian Ocean. Wives trudge inland and work small family farms called machambas. But in recent years, fish catches have plummeted, the result of overfishing and a reef ailing in waters warmed by climate change.
English
No Restrictions
Marine Biodiversity
General Information
Community Use of Biodiversity
Primeiras e Segundas Islands Environmental Protection Area
Primeiras e Segundas: Making two worlds one
Status and community based conservation of marine turtles in the northern Querimbas Islands (Mozambique)
Garnier, J. et al.
2012
Cabo Delgado
2003 - 2007
Oryx
Situated in the northernmost part of Mozambique, the northern Querimbas Islands support some of the most diverse and pristine coral reefs in the Western Indian Ocean. The community-based turtle conservation programme that we developed on Vamizi Island has facilitated the identification and protection of a key nesting site for the green marine turtle Chelonia mydas in Mozambique, with a mean of 122 nests per year. The area is also used by nesting female and immature hawksbill turtles Eretmochelys imbricata.
English
No Restrictions
Marine Biodiversity
Reports, Studies, Biodiversity Baselines and Evaluations
Identification, Monitoring, Indicators and Assessments; Community Use of Biodiversity
Quirimbas National Park
Status and community based conservation of marine turtles in the northern Querimbas Islands (Mozambique)
Annotated Checklist of The Birds of Banhine National Park
DW Pietersen and EW Pietersen
2010
N/A; Gaza
http://oo.adu.org.za/content.php?id=4
Of the five landscapes, the wetland boasts by far the greatest diversity and greatest numbers of species, and is probably the most important, and most threatened, landscape in the park.
Ornithological Observations, Vol 1: 7-37
Within the park borders, 11 plant communities have been identified, which can be broadly grouped into five major landscape types, viz. wetland, grassland, Mopane, sandveld and Androstachys landscapes. These landscapes support a wealth of bird species, with 318 species being confirmed in the park to date and many additional species believed to still occur in the park. Of the species recorded to date, 76 are significant range expansions for southern Mozambique, six species were previously subject to confirmation from southern Mozambique, two species have not previously been recorded from southern Mozambique and nine species are considered to be regionally or globally threatened.
English
No Restrictions
Forest Biodiversity; Other Terrestrial Biodiversity; Inland Waters and Wetlands Biodiversity
Reports, Studies, Biodiversity Baselines and Evaluations
Identification, Monitoring, Indicators and Assessments
Banhine National Park
Annotated Checklist of The Birds of Banhine National Park
Causes and Consequences of Displacement Decision-making in BNP
In the case of displacement decision-making in Banhine National Park (BNP), Mozambique, district-level government offi cials promoted the displacement of BNP-area residents and their resettlement into villages outside the park in a manner that was inconsistent with the World Bank safeguard policy. The decision to displace park residents was infl uenced by communication and capacity challenges, pressures for political decentralisation, the local-level operationalisation of international poverty reduction and development agendas, and a national-level agenda to concentrate or villagise dispersed rural populations.
English
No Restrictions
General
Peer-reviewed article
Community Use of Biodiversity
Banhine National Park
Causes and Consequences of Displacement Decision-making in BNP
Decreto 90/2013 – Altera os Limites do Parque Nacional de Banhine
Governo de Moçambqiue
2013
N/A; Gaza
Boletim da República
Decreto alterando os limites do PNB.
Portuguese
No Restrictions
General
Official Government Document
Legal and Political (Laws, Regulations, Action Plans, Strategies, etc.)
Banhine National Park
Decreto 90/2013 – Altera os Limites do Parque Nacional de Banhine
Banhine-Wildlife Survey Report
Marc Stalmans
2007
N/A; Gaza
2007
ACTF - MITUR
A wildlife survey was undertaken during October-November 2007 of the Parque Nacional de Banhine as a follow-up from the survey undertaken during 2004. Balancing the requirements for objectivity, repeatability and affordability, a partial survey (sample count) was applied with a helicopter using the same survey blocks used in 2004. A total of 44,800 ha (or 448km2) representing 7.8% of Banhine was covered by the 9 survey blocks.
English
No Restrictions
Forest Biodiversity; Other Terrestrial Biodiversity; Inland Waters and Wetlands Biodiversity
Reports, Studies, Biodiversity Baselines and Evaluations
Identification, Monitoring, Indicators and Assessments
Banhine National Park
Banhine-Wildlife Survey Report
Preliminary report on the apex predators of Banhine National Park and the potential Limpopo-Banhine corridor
Leah Andresen, Kristoffer Everatt & Graham Kerley
2015
Gaza
2014-15
Centre for African Conservation Ecology, Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University
• Extensive surveys revealed small but critical populations of large predators including cheetah, lion and endangered African wild dog in Banhine National Park. • Importantly, there are large tracts of habitat with little human impact and no livestock. • Based on these preliminary results, we strongly believe that Banhine could be restored. • We recommend the formulation of a Park Development Plan. • It is crucial that conservation corridors that permit dispersal for threatened predators are secured. • To assist with the park development and corridor planning process, we are providing preliminary information on critical predator areas and wild ungulate occurrence.
English
No Restrictions
Forest Biodiversity; Other Terrestrial Biodiversity
Reports, Studies, Biodiversity Baselines and Evaluations
Ecosystem Restoration; Identification, Monitoring, Indicators and Assessments; Threats to Biodiversity
Banhine National Park; Zinave National Park; Limpopo National Park
Preliminary report on the apex predators of Banhine National Park and the potential Limpopo-Banhine corridor
MORPHOLOGICAL AND GENETIC DIVERGENCE OF THE MANGROVE GASTROPOD CERITHIDEA DECOLLATA ALONG THE EASTERN COAST OF AFRICA
Madeira, S.
2011
N/A
2006: Jan-Dez
UNIVERSIDADE DE LISBOA
In this study I aimed to investigate the sources of a possible inter and intra population variation and the existence of discrete groups of individuals in the mangrove gastropod Cerithidea decollata along the eastern coast of Africa. The combined analysis of morphometric and genetic data helped to improve the comprehension of the population genetic structure and phylogeography of the species.
English
No Restrictions
Marine Biodiversity; Coastal Biodiversity
Peer-reviewed article
Identification, Monitoring, Indicators and Assessments; Biological and Cultural Diversity
Quirimbas National Park; Bazaruto Archipelago National Park; Marromeu Special Reserve; Pomene National Reserve; Ponta do Ouro Partial Marine Reserve; Cabo de São Sebastião Total Protection Zone; Inhaca Biological Reserve; Primeiras e Segundas Islands Environmental Protection Area
MORPHOLOGICAL AND GENETIC DIVERGENCE OF THE MANGROVE GASTROPOD CERITHIDEA DECOLLATA ALONG THE EASTERN COAST OF AFRICA
Frontline Observations on Climate Change and Sustainability of Large Marine Ecosystems
Sherman, k. & McGovern, G.
2012
N/A
UNDP-GEF
The growing risks and impacts of climate change and the accompanying loss of ecosystem services require the world to urgently invest in a new development paradigm. Development, climate change and ecosystem sustainability issues are increasingly interlinked, requiring a rethinking of traditional development assistance in order to remain relevant to human needs. UNDP has fully embraced the new development paradigm – a unique strategic approach for each economy - to help countries achieve development targets while meeting the needs of their citizens in the face of growing challenges of climate change.
English
No Restrictions
General
Project Document, Project Reports and Evaluations
Climate Change and Biodiversity
Quirimbas National Park; Bazaruto Archipelago National Park; Ponta do Ouro Partial Marine Reserve; Cabo de São Sebastião Total Protection Zone; Primeiras e Segundas Islands Environmental Protection Area
Frontline Observations on Climate Change and Sustainability of Large Marine Ecosystems
Vulnerability assessment methodologies: an annotated bibliography for climate change and the fisheries and aquaculture sector
Barsley, W., De Young, C & Brugère, C.
2013
N/A
2013
FAO Fisheries and Aquaculture Circula
This paper presents a comprehensive annotated bibliography of the most contemporary and seminal vulnerability methodologies from over the past decade, focusing particularly on vulnerability to climate change in the fisheries and aquaculture sector. The bibliography was developed as a background paper for an international expert workshop in Namibia in 2013 on climate change vulnerability methodologies, coordinated by FAO. A significant degree of confusion and debate surrounds vulnerability assessments and the methods through which vulnerability should be measured in order to provide an accurate assessment that can feed into effective polices and strategies for adaptation and vulnerability reduction.
English
No Restrictions
Marine Biodiversity
Peer-reviewed article
Biological and Cultural Diversity; Sustainable Use of Biodiversity
None
Vulnerability assessment methodologies: an annotated bibliography for climate change and the fisheries and aquaculture sector
Technology Action Plan: Marine Energy
MEF
2009
N/A
The Leaders of the 17 partners of the Major Economies Forum on Energy and Climate (MEF) agreed on 9 July 2009 that moving to a low-carbon economy provides an opportunity to promote continued economic growth and sustainable development as part of a vigorous response to the danger posed by climate change. They identified an urgent need for development and deployment of transformational clean energy technologies, and established the Global Partnership to drive such low-carbon, climate friendly technologies.
English
No Restrictions
Marine Biodiversity
Reports, Studies, Biodiversity Baselines and Evaluations
Economics, Trade and Incentive Measures; Sustainable Use of Biodiversity
None
Technology Action Plan: Marine Energy
A review of historical trends in the distribution and abundance of elephants Loxodonta africana in Mozambique
Ntumi et al
2009
N/A
The elephant Loxodonta africana population of Mozambique has declined rapidly over the last 4 decades. Historical census data are incomplete but suggest that the impact of human activity on the elephant population increased after the onset of the colonial era. Demand for ivory explains the population decline from 1700 to 1940, and the killing of elephants as part of settlement policies and tsetse fly control programmes further reduced the populations between 1940 and 1960. Land transformation from 1900 onwards may also have contributed to the historical decline in elephant numbers. Our assessment suggests that landscape approaches should be explored in seeking to conserve elephants in modern Mozambique.
English
Not applicable
Other Terrestrial Biodiversity
Peer-reviewed article
Gender and Biodiversity; Identification, Monitoring, Indicators and Assessments
None
A review of historical trends in the distribution and abundance of elephants Loxodonta africana in Mozambique
Solutions for a low-carbon energy future
IEA
2011
N/A
English
No Restrictions
General
Reports, Studies, Biodiversity Baselines and Evaluations
Sustainable Use of Biodiversity
None
Solutions for a low-carbon energy future
A recent inventory of the bats of Mozambique with documentation of seven new species for the country
The bat fauna of Mozambique is poorly documented. We conducted a series of inventories across the country between 2005 and 2009, resulting in the identification of 50 species from 41 sites. Of these, seven species represent new national records that increase the country total to 67 species. These data include results from the first detailed surveys across northern Mozambique, over an area representing almost 50% of the country. We detail information on new distribution records and measurements of these specimens. Furthermore, we also present some notes on taxonomy, ecology and echolocation calls. Finally, we combine modeled distributions to present predicted species richness across the country.
English
Not applicable
Other Terrestrial Biodiversity
Peer-reviewed article
Economics, Trade and Incentive Measures; Tourism and Biodiversity
None
A recent inventory of the bats of Mozambique with documentation of seven new species for the country
Optimising investments from elephant tourist revenues in the Maputo Elephant Reserve, Mozambique
Boer et al
2007
Maputo
Journal for Nature Conservation 15 (2007) 225—236
Journal for Nature Conservation
Private enterprises are active in conservation initiatives in Africa. Some of these enterprises have long-term licences for the development of conservation areas. The motivation of these organisations to participate in conservation is ultimately determined by the economic output of their activities. An electric fence is being constructed in the Maputo Elephant Reserve, Mozambique. A costs-benefit analysis was carried out, in order to assist in the optimisation of the management activities of the elephant population, based on elephant population size, fence costs, crop raid costs, elephant poaching, and benefits derived from tourism (game-viewing and hunting).
English
Not applicable
Other Terrestrial Biodiversity
Peer-reviewed article
Economics, Trade and Incentive Measures; Tourism and Biodiversity
Maputo Special Reserve
Optimising investments from elephant tourist revenues in the Maputo Elephant Reserve, Mozambique
Prospecção de Tuberculose Bovina (TB), Brucelose e Febre Aftosa, em búfalos (Syncerus caffer) e Tuberculose em bovinos (Bos indicus) no Parque Nacional do Limpopo e áreas adjacentes
Pereira, C.; Costa, R. & Mangueze, A.
2006
Gaza
2004-2006
A prospecção a que se refere o presente documento resulta e um trabalho realizado no Parque Nacional do Limpopo (PNL) e áreas adjacente e surgiu da necessidade de iniciar a caracterização da situação epidemiológica nesta região onde habitam 20.000 pessoas e coabitam animais selvagens e domesticos, dos quais, mais de 11.000 são bovinos.
Portuguese
No Restrictions
Other Terrestrial Biodiversity
Project Document, Project Reports and Evaluations
Health & Biodiversity
Limpopo National Park
Prospecção de Tuberculose Bovina (TB), Brucelose e Febre Aftosa, em búfalos (Syncerus caffer) e Tuberculose em bovinos (Bos indicus) no Parque Nacional do Limpopo e áreas adjacentes
Making a Difference: Restoration of Habitats and Species – Experiences from WIO Region
Sisitka, L. et al.
2015
N/A
theWIOMSA magazine
The Western Indian Ocean, in common with the rest of the world’s oceans, is facing increasing pressure on the marine and coastal resources, and increasing degradation of critical habitats. In particular, the nearshore and coastal ecosystems are under tremendous stress. There are many causes for this decline, including over-fishing, use of inappropriate fishing technologies, insensitive tourism operations, extraction of corals and coral sand for construction, and clearance of mangroves for mariculture and just for better views!
English
No Restrictions
Marine Biodiversity; Coastal Biodiversity
Peer-reviewed article
Ecosystem Restoration
None
Making a Difference: Restoration of Habitats and Species – Experiences from WIO Region
Review of REDD+ and Carbon-Forestry Projects in RFGI Countries
Mutasa, M.
2012
N/A
RFGI
This paper provides background information on REDD+in Africa for the Responsive Forest Governance Initiative (RFGI), a collaborative initiative involving the Council for the Development of Social Science Research in Africa (CODESRIA), the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC).
English
No Restrictions
General; Forest Biodiversity
Project Document, Project Reports and Evaluations; Reports, Studies, Biodiversity Baselines and Evaluations
Climate Change and Biodiversity; Economics, Trade and Incentive Measures
None
Review of REDD+ and Carbon-Forestry Projects in RFGI Countries
Taxonomy And Historical Zoogeography Of The Red Squirrel, Paraxerus palliatus (peters, 1852). In the Southern african subregion (rodentia: sciuridae)
Viljoen, S.
1989
N/A
The inter- and intraspecific classification of the red squirrel, Paraxerus palliatus (Peters, 1852) is reviewed. Paraxerus Forsyth Major, 1893, is considered a valid genus with two species, P. cepapi (A. Smith, 1836) and P. palliatus, within the Southern African subregion. P. pa/liatus is represented by four subspecies, 1) P. p, omatus (Gray, 1864), 2) P. p. bridgemani Dollman, 1914, with tongensis Roberts, 1931, and auriventris Roberts, 1926, as synonyms; 3) P. p. swynnertoni (Wroughton, 1908), and 4) P. p, sponsus (Thomas & Wroughton, 1908).
English
No Restrictions
Other Terrestrial Biodiversity
Peer-reviewed article
Biological and Cultural Diversity
None
Taxonomy And Historical Zoogeography Of The Red Squirrel, Paraxerus palliatus (peters, 1852). In the Southern african subregion (rodentia: sciuridae)
Development strategies for a coastal resort in Southern Mozambique
Jury, M. et al.
2011
Maputo
2003 - 2006
African Journal of Business Management
As part of a long-term monitoring project studying coastal development, a number of rapid scan field surveys and project interventions were conducted in Ponta do Ouro, at the southern border of Mozambique. Here we report on four issues in support of sustainable development: 1. Tourism, 2. Water supplies, 3. Biodiversity and 4. Governance. In our tourism study, we interviewed tourists and managers, and placed a researcher as an intern in a beach camp to assess management and interactions.
English
No Restrictions
Coastal Biodiversity
Peer-reviewed article
Sustainable Use of Biodiversity
Ponta do Ouro Partial Marine Reserve
Development strategies for a coastal resort in Southern Mozambique