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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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
Seagrass meadows globally as a coupled social–ecological system: Implications for human wellbeing
Cullen-Unsworth, L. et al.
2013
N/A; Maputo (cidade)
Marine Pollution Bulletin
Seagrass ecosystems are diminishing worldwide and repeated studies confirm a lack of appreciation for the value of these systems. In order to highlight their value we provide the first discussion of seagrass meadows as a coupled social–ecological system on a global scale. We consider the impact of a declining resource on people, including those for whom seagrass meadows are utilised for income generation and a source of food security through fisheries support. Case studies from across the globe are used to demonstrate the intricate relationship between seagrass meadows and people that highlight the multi-functional role of seagrasses in human wellbeing.
English
No Restrictions
Marine Biodiversity
Peer-reviewed article
Community Use of Biodiversity
None
Seagrass meadows globally as a coupled social–ecological system: Implications for human wellbeing
Cosmopolitanism among Gondwanan Late Cretaceous mammals
Krause, D. et al.
1997
N/A
Nature
Consistent with geophysical evidence for the breaking up of Pangaea, it has been hypothesized that Cretaceous vertebrates on progressively isolated landmasses exhibit generally increasing levels of provincialism, with distinctly heightened endemism occurring at the beginning of the Late Cretaceous. The Cretaceous fossil record from the southern supercontinent of Gondwana has been much too poor to test this hypothesis with regards to mammals.
English
No Restrictions
Other Terrestrial Biodiversity
Peer-reviewed article
Biological and Cultural Diversity
None
Cosmopolitanism among Gondwanan Late Cretaceous mammals
Community Rights, Conservation and Contested Land
IUCN
2010
N/A
Earthscan
This book has come together during the past three years, starting with its initial genesis at a meeting of the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) Southern Africa Sustainable Use Specialist Group (SASUSG) in May 2007. During this time, the volume’s core subject – local and national institutional struggles over natural resource use, tenure and control – has increasingly been a subject of debate and public attention, both within African countries and more widely around the world.
English
No Restrictions
General
Reports, Studies, Biodiversity Baselines and Evaluations
Biological and Cultural Diversity; Communication and Public Awareness; Environmental Education; Sustainable Use of Biodiversity
None
Community Rights, Conservation and Contested Land
Influence of Human Exploitation of Intertidal Mollusk Resources on the Selection and Utilisation of Gastropod Shells by the Hermit Crab Clibanarius longitarsus (de Haan) in Costa do Sol Mangrove, Maputo
Pereira, M. & Gonçalves, P.
2000
N/A; Maputo (cidade)
2000
The use of gastropod shells by the hermit crab Clibanarius longitarsus at Costa do Sol Mangrove was investigated. Particular attention was paid to the influence of human collection of intertidal gastropod resources on the availability and utilization of shells by C. longitarsus. Three main methods were used in this study: crab field collections, shell selection laboratory experiments and interviews with local women who collect intertidal mollusk resources. A total of 23 shell types were used by C. longitarsus at the Costa do Sol mangrove, the most common being Volema pyrum, Murex brevispina and Terebralia palustris. Gastropod shells were a limiting resource for hermit crabs.
English
No Restrictions
Marine Biodiversity; Coastal Biodiversity
Peer-reviewed article
Biological and Cultural Diversity; Sustainable Use of Biodiversity
None
Influence of Human Exploitation of Intertidal Mollusk Resources on the Selection and Utilisation of Gastropod Shells by the Hermit Crab Clibanarius longitarsus (de Haan) in Costa do Sol Mangrove, Maputo
Marine biological research at inhaca island, Mozambique: an interim report
Kalk, M.
1954
N/A; Maputo (cidade)
South African Journal of Science
This paper mentions the different types of biological research now in progress at the Laboratory for few studies have yet been published. It gives the first general account of conclusions reached regarding the different littoral biotopes and the affinities of the faunas. The composition of the faunal belts is discussed and it is shown that the, universal' zones of a rocky shore can be recognized on the east coast, which is lapped by the Indian Ocean.
English
No Restrictions
Marine Biodiversity
Peer-reviewed article
Biological and Cultural Diversity; Identification, Monitoring, Indicators and Assessments
None
Marine biological research at inhaca island, Mozambique: an interim report
Gestão de resíduos sólidos urbanos em moçambique, responsabilidade de quem?
Langa, J.
2014
N/A
Este texto apresenta o cenário da responsabilização dos vários atores na GRSU em Moçambique, tendo como caso a cidade de Maputo. Com base em pesquisa bibliográfica, documental e visitas técnicas em empreendimentos (Recicla, Fertiliza, ComSol, Amor e Pagalata) foi elaborado este texto. De modo geral, estes projetos iniciativas positivas, embora sua contribuição ainda seja pouco considerável nos três setores: social, ambiental e econômico, para muitos já demonstram uma possibilidade de ação.
Portuguese
No Restrictions
General
General Information
Environmental Education
None
Gestão de resíduos sólidos urbanos em moçambique, responsabilidade de quem?
Cyanophyceae associated with mangrove trees at Inhaca Island, Mozambique
Silva, S.
1991
N/A
Bothalia
A survey of the Cyanophyceae associated with two of the five mangrove trees and their associated Bostrychieta at Inhaca Island, Mozambique, was undertaken. Sixteen taxa belonging to 12 genera were identified. Of these, six taxa were new records for Mozambique, three at generic and three at specific level. Thirteen taxa of Cyanophyceae were found growing on Avicennia marina (Forssk.) Vierh. and four on Ceriops lagal (Perr.) C.B. Robinson. Chamaecalyx leibleiniae (H. Reinsch) Komarek & Anagnostidis was the only Cyanophyceae to occur on both species of tree.
English
No Restrictions
Marine Biodiversity; Coastal Biodiversity
Peer-reviewed article
Biological and Cultural Diversity; Identification, Monitoring, Indicators and Assessments
None
Cyanophyceae associated with mangrove trees at Inhaca Island, Mozambique
New Forms Of South African Mammals
Roberts, A.
s.d.
N/A
The following new forms of mammals have been brought to light by recent acquisitions from various contributors, whose names will be mentioned hereafter, and as a result of special explorations of Ubombo and Ingwavuma Districts, Northern Zululand, by the author under two special grants from the Union Research Grant Board. A report upon this special exploration will be published at a later date, as a final exploration may be carried out to clear up dubious points and complete the survey of this most interesting corner of the Union.
English
No Restrictions
Other Terrestrial Biodiversity
Reports, Studies, Biodiversity Baselines and Evaluations
Biological and Cultural Diversity; Identification, Monitoring, Indicators and Assessments
None
New Forms Of South African Mammals
Reef Resilience Workshop Report. Programa Primeiras e Segundas – Angoche, Moma e Pebane
Armando, Cremildo
2014
Nampula; Zambézia
Funded by TNC Primeiras and Segundas MPA, finalized de workshop about Reef resilience in his first stage. It was in Nampula province, Angoche district were about 24 participants of fisherman, government officers, private sector, Fish Association, Fishing Community Council, had one day for discuss issue of reef management including resilience and another day for field trip.
English
Not applicable
Marine Biodiversity
Reports, Studies, Biodiversity Baselines and Evaluations
Identification, Monitoring, Indicators and Assessments; Protected Areas
Primeiras e Segundas Islands Environmental Protection Area
Reef Resilience Workshop Report. Programa Primeiras e Segundas – Angoche, Moma e Pebane
Scale, perception and resilience in Gorongosa, Mozambique
Lynam, Tim
2004
Sofala
The Resilience Alliance
Powerpoint presentation with: • Overview of Gorongosa • Timeline of key changes and events • Discussion of resilience analysis • Key messages
English
Not applicable
General
Presentations
Identification, Monitoring, Indicators and Assessments; Protected Areas; Threats to Biodiversity
Gorongosa National Park
Scale, perception and resilience in Gorongosa, Mozambique
Vulnerabilidade Climática nas Zonas Costeiras. Caso de estudo: Delta do Zambeze
Maueua et al
2007
N/A
Este relatório apresenta o estudo da avaliação da vulnerabilidade da zona costeira às mudanças climáticas para Moçambique no âmbito da Convenção-Quadro da Nações Unidas sobre Mudanças Climáticas. O objectivo do projecto é fornecer orientações precisas para adoptar políticas e medidas que reduzam os impactos das mudanças climáticas no desenvolvimento sócio-económico do País. O presente estudo é parte das actividades do projecto The Netherlands Climate Change Assistance Programme – NCAP' e os seus resultados servirão de inputs na preparação da Segunda Comunicação Nacional.
Portuguese
Not applicable
Inland Waters and Wetlands Biodiversity
Reports, Studies, Biodiversity Baselines and Evaluations
Threats to Biodiversity
None
Vulnerabilidade Climática nas Zonas Costeiras. Caso de estudo: Delta do Zambeze
Realizações do Sector das Pescas
Ministério das Pescas
2013
N/A
2005-2012
A acção do Governo no sector das Pescas, no período de 2005 a 2012, esteve orientada para medidas que visam contribuir para a segurança alimentar, disponibilizando o pescado para o consumo e para a melhoria das condições de vida das comunidades pesqueiras. Neste sentido e tomando como base os objectivos do Programa Quinquenal do Governo (PQG), neste documento destacam-se as grandes realizações ocorridas no período em análise.
Portuguese
Not applicable
Marine Biodiversity; Coastal Biodiversity
Project Document, Project Reports and Evaluations
Legal and Political (Laws, Regulations, Action Plans, Strategies, etc.)
None
Realizações do Sector das Pescas
Fishing Forever? Social and Biophysical Implications of No-take Fishing Zones. Case Study in Moma District, Nampula Province, Mozambique
Fisher, Brendan
2014
Nampula
Report to the Rockefeller Foundation from the CARE-WWF Alliance (2014). Grant Number: 2013 OCE 202.
Between September 2013 and February 2014, the CARE-WWF Alliance undertook both biophysical and household surveys in the Moma Estuary. The goal was to understand the livelihood dependencies on the marine system in the area, as well as the biophysical impacts of marine management.
English
Not applicable
Marine Biodiversity; Coastal Biodiversity
Reports, Studies, Biodiversity Baselines and Evaluations
Identification, Monitoring, Indicators and Assessments; Threats to Biodiversity
None
Fishing Forever? Social and Biophysical Implications of No-take Fishing Zones. Case Study in Moma District, Nampula Province, Mozambique
Designing a transfrontier conservation landscape for the Maputaland centre of endemism using biodiversity, economic and threat data
Smith et al
2008
N/A
Biological Conservation 141 (2008) 2127 – 2138
Biological Conservation
A number of global priority region schemes have been developed, but local assessments are needed to identify priority areas for conservation within these regions. Here, we describe results from a conservation assessment for Maputaland, part of a biodiversity hotspot in southern Africa that is also the focus of the Lubombo Transfrontier Conservation Area (TFCA) initiative between South Africa, Mozambique and Swaziland. The TFCA seeks to establish new state-, private- and communally-managed conservation areas to boost economic development through nature-based tourism and game ranching.
English
Not applicable
General
Peer-reviewed article
Protected Areas
None
Designing a transfrontier conservation landscape for the Maputaland centre of endemism using biodiversity, economic and threat data
National Report on the Implementation of the Ramsar Convention on Wetlands
MICOA - Ministério para a Coordenação da Acção Ambiental
2015
N/A
National Report submitted on the 12th Meeting of the Conference of the Contracting Parties, Uruguay, 2015
National Report on the Implementation of the Ramsar Convention on Wetlands - Mozambique.
English
Not applicable
Inland Waters and Wetlands Biodiversity
Project Document, Project Reports and Evaluations
Identification, Monitoring, Indicators and Assessments; Protected Areas
None
National Report on the Implementation of the Ramsar Convention on Wetlands
Impacto da produção e comercialização de tabaco nas comunidades rurais do norte da provincia de Tete – o caso de Furancungo
Ferrão, Cesário
2005
Tete
1995-2004
Projecto de pesquisa apresentado em cumprimento dos requisitos exigidos para a obtenção do grau de licenciatura em Antropologia pela Universidade Eduardo Mondlane
Universidade Eduardo Mondlane
O presente trabalho constitui o resultado de um levantamento preliminar e pretende fornecer elementos que permitam estabalecer as directrizes a seguir na execução ou desenvolvimento de futuros trabalhos. Contém uma reflexão sobre as causas da adesão ao cultivo e comércio do tabaco pelas comunidades rurais desse distrito, bem como sobre os fenómenos ligados à divisão social de trabalho, composição e residencialidade do agregado familiar e conflitos existentes, persistentes e extintos e que se fundamentem com base no fomento, produção e comercialização dessa cultura de rendimento.
Portuguese
Not applicable
General
Peer-reviewed article
Identification, Monitoring, Indicators and Assessments; Community Use of Biodiversity
None
Impacto da produção e comercialização de tabaco nas comunidades rurais do norte da provincia de Tete – o caso de Furancungo
The contribution to local enterprise development of infrastructure for commodity extraction projects: Tanzania’s central corridor and Mozambique’s Zambezi Valley
Perkins, D. & Robbins, G.
2011
N/A
MMCP Discussion Paper No. 9, March 2011 Making the Most of Commodities Programme (MMCP)
This report investigates in what way the provision and management of infrastructure (or shortcomings therein) has constrained or enabled mining investment and local firm linkages to this mining activity (with a primary focus on the recent experience on Tanzania's Central Development Corridor and the Zambezi Valley in Mozambique). The usefulness of the development corridor approach to enhance the scope for linked small enterprise development and more diversified economic development is explored in the context of increased minerals investment.
English
Not applicable
Inland Waters and Wetlands Biodiversity
Project Document, Project Reports and Evaluations
Threats to Biodiversity
None
The contribution to local enterprise development of infrastructure for commodity extraction projects: Tanzania’s central corridor and Mozambique’s Zambezi Valley
Exploitation of Marine Turtles in the Indian Ocean
Frazier, J.
1980
N/A
Human Ecology, Vol. 8, No. 4, 1980
Human Ecology
Marine turtles long have been o f great value to peoples of the Indian Ocean, nutritionally, economically, and culturally. Once directed primarily toward subsistence, the hunting of marine turtles for international trade has increased; today their populations are often so depleted that they are not only insignificant as resources, but are endangered. An understanding o f exploitation is imperative to guarantee future populations, yet available information is sketchy. "Subsistence hunting "is an ambiguous term, since the most intense exploitation is for export.
English
Not applicable
Marine Biodiversity
Peer-reviewed article
Identification, Monitoring, Indicators and Assessments; Threats to Biodiversity
None
Exploitation of Marine Turtles in the Indian Ocean
Transboundary MPAs: a challenge for the twenty-first century
Silva et al
2012
N/A
Management of Environmental Quality: An International Journal, Vol. 23 Iss: 4 pp. 328 - 346
Management of Environmental Quality: An International Journal
The Convention on Biological Diversity set specific targets for halting biodiversity loss, including the need to establish 10 per cent of coastal/marine areas conserved through, among other things, well-connected systems of protected areas by 2020. The reality is that whereas nearly 15 per cent of land is protected, just over 1 per cent of marine space is similarly protected. The challenge is to reach “a global representative system” of Marine Protected Areas. The purpose of this paper is to address the options and trends for countries to develop transboundary cooperation through MPAs. The authors address several case studies, focusing on political, governance and financing frameworks.
English
Not applicable
Marine Biodiversity
Peer-reviewed article
Protected Areas; Threats to Biodiversity
None
Transboundary MPAs: a challenge for the twenty-first century
Co-Management of Fisheries in a Marine Protected Area: The Case of the Quirimbas National Park in Mozambique.
MARGov Project – Collaborative Governance of Marine Protected Areas (pp. 163-172), ISBN: 978-989-8745-58-3.
Sustainability in the 21st Century – The Power of Dialogue
In the Quirimbas National Park, created in Mozambique in 2002, a few no-take areas were implemented in coral reef areas as a way to protect marine biodiversity and help rebuild fish stocks. Many fishers contested the creation of no-take areas, and fisheries management authorities supported them. This document briefly shows what are the threats to coral reefs inside the QNP, what was the criticism of fishers and fisheries management authorities to sanctuaries, what motivated the QNP to change its strategy, and what results fisheries co-management has already produced in the conservation of coral reefs and in the promotion of fisheries.
English
Not applicable
Marine Biodiversity
Peer-reviewed article
Protected Areas; Community Use of Biodiversity; Threats to Biodiversity
Quirimbas National Park
Co-Management of Fisheries in a Marine Protected Area: The Case of the Quirimbas National Park in Mozambique.
Satellite telemetry suggests high levels of fishing-induced mortality in marine turtles
Hays et al
2003
N/A
MARINE ECOLOGY PROGRESS SERIES Vol. 262: 305 – 309, 2003
Marine Ecology Progress Series
Long-term records of nesting numbers, or proxies to nesting numbers, show a precipitous decline in the size of many sea turtle populations. Population declines are most frequently attributed to fisheries bycatch, although direct quantification of this level of mortality is rare. We used satellite-tracking records for turtles in the Mediterranean Sea and Pacific, Atlantic and Indian Oceans to identify when turtles had been captured. Evidence for capture came from a combination of an increase in good quality locations from transmitters, transmitters moving inland to coastal towns and villages, and on-board submergence data, showing that transmitters had come out of the water.
English
Not applicable
Marine Biodiversity
Peer-reviewed article
Identification, Monitoring, Indicators and Assessments; Threats to Biodiversity
None
Satellite telemetry suggests high levels of fishing-induced mortality in marine turtles
Influence of ocean currents on long-distance movement of leatherback sea turtles in the Southwest Indian Ocean
Leatherback turtles Dermochelys coriacea spend most of their life in oceanic environments, whose physical and biological characteristics are primarily forged by sea current circulation. Water mass movements can mechanically act on swimming turtles, thus determining their routes, and can differentially distribute their planktonic prey. By integrating satellite tracking data with contemporaneous remote-sensing information, we analysed the post-nesting journeys of 9 leatherbacks with respect to oceanographic surface conditions.
English
Not applicable
Marine Biodiversity
Peer-reviewed article
Identification, Monitoring, Indicators and Assessments
None
Influence of ocean currents on long-distance movement of leatherback sea turtles in the Southwest Indian Ocean