Climate Action Mexico Project #5928

Help Rebuild the Gulf of Mexico Barrier Reef

by Action Change (Formerly GVI Trust)

Project Report | Nov 12, 2014
Busy times at the Turtle project

By Sophie Birkett | Head of Operations

Green turtle laying Chelonia mydas

Dear Supporter,

The turtle project is very busy at the moment with lots of turtle nests in San Juan and Yuyum Beaches. Every night we have approximately 8 turtles in San Juan and most nights two or three hatching nests. In Yuyum, during the inspection we had 5 or 6 new nests and about 8 to 10 nests to clean each week.

During August we had found 199 nests of Chelonia mydas (Green turtle) and 68 of Caretta caretta (Loggerhead turtle) in San Juan, but on the 29^thAugust when our partners helped out on a inspection in San Juan we found 136 extra nests and we cleaned more than 20, giving us a total of 403 nests in San Juan.

After the San Juan inspection, Flora Fauna y Cultura de México came back to base to help us with Yuyum, finding 76 nests and cleaning more than 15. Adding this to the 33 nests of Chelonia mydas and 20 of Caretta caretta that had been found before, we now have 129 nests in Yuyum.

With turtle season about to finish, we have had so far more than 2000 little turtles in our two beaches. We are very excited to see the final results of the season, and we feel very lucky to be able to contribute towards conserving the sea turtle species that nest it the region.

Thanks you for continuing to support this project.

All the best

GVI Mexico

Links:

http://www.gvi.org

Permalink

Aug 29, 2014
5 sites of MBRS Synoptic Monitoring completed

By Sophie Birkett | Head of Operations, Charitable Trust

Dear Supporter,

One of the main objectives of Pez Maya marine conservation project is to collect data for the MBRS Synoptic Monitoring Program on behalf of our partners Amigos de Sian Ka’an (ASK) and CONANP. We train volunteers in four different MBRS methodologies, and when they complete their training they start to monitor. This quarter (April-June) we managed to complete five monitor sites for fish and coral.

Objectives

To continue with the Mesoamerican Barrier Reef System (MBRS) Synoptic Monitoring Program in strategic locations in the north of Sian Ka'an reserve, to provide current information on the status of the reefs for management decisions.

To train participants in the expeditions in the MBRS methodology, through the identification offish, hard corals, invertebrates and algae.

The volunteers are trained in the four different methodologies of MBRS: Point Intercept method for percentage cover (PI), characterization of the Coral Communities (CC), and belt transect counts for defined fish species, adults and recruitments / juveniles. Volunteers go through extensive training both in and out of the water, learning Latin names for corals, conducting coral and fish identification tests, practice monitoring, sizing, laying lines, etc. Training can take anywhere between 4-6 weeks depending on ability, logistics and weather.

Each quarter we aim to monitor as many sites as possible, and for the April to June quarter we were very happy that we managed to complete 5 out of 11 monitoring sites. It was really successful and a great occasion was when we had four different monitoring buddy pairs on one boat.

Results

For the April- June quarter a total 5 sites were monitored from 11 sites: Pedro Paila 05 (PP05), Pedro Paila 10 (PP10), San Miguel de Ruiz 10 (SMDR10), San Miguel de Ruiz 20 (SMDR20) and Punta Yuyum 20 (PY20). Both coral and fish transects were completed at these sites.

PP05 presents a high predominance of algae cover (74.50%) and a low percentage of hard coral cover (7.33%).

The dominant fish family is Acanthuridae with 84.55%, this is due to the higher number of individuals of blue tangs, ocean and doctor surgeon fish, which are most common in the reef. Also these species often travel and feed in schools which makes their presence in the transect higher.

All the sites were done for both coral and fish giving us a clear idea of what is happening on the reef. Thank you for supporting this cause, your donations make all the above happen!

Thank you

GVI Mexico

Links:

http://www.gvi.org

Permalink

Jun 4, 2014
Illegal Fishing in Mexico

By Sophie Birkett | Head of Operations, Charitable Trust

‹ 1 ... 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 ... 19 ›

About Project Reports

Project reports on GlobalGiving are posted directly to globalgiving.org by Project Leaders as they are completed, generally every 3-4 months. To protect the integrity of these documents, GlobalGiving does not alter them; therefore you may find some language or formatting issues.

If you donate to this project or have donated to this project, you can recieve an email when this project posts a report. You can also subscribe for reports without donating.