Vava'u Ocean Initiative

🦉School awareness increases knowledge on ocean ecology and ocean management!

🗓Over the next 3 weeks, the team will share knowledge at 6 high schools and 11 government primary and middle schools.

🐠The focus of the sessions is biodiversity, impacts and management including special management areas and marine protected areas. These topics are a key for the internal exams that students will take.

✅Questions and answer sessions at the end provide the platform for students to share their learning and information.

Later this year we will be taking students from the High Schools to the field to learn mangrove and inter tidal habitat surveys 🥰

Great work by everyone, and always malo'aupito for the teachers and students!

✅ Team members and community ambassadors have taken to the waters once again!

☀️Summer time is sizzle time for corals and it’s important we understand and identify bleaching events.

🐚 Healthy corals provide resilience, food, income and relaxation to name a few!

👀 Using the cards we can rapidly monitor reef changes between now and May!

🥳 Great to also have volunteer Frederike who is with Vepa Vava'u for the month.

👏🏻 Malo team and thanks to the SMA Talihau for letting us do our survey!