Research project on the importance of #sharks for human well-being in Cabo Verde and Sao Tome and Príncipe. Funded by @FCT_pt & @AKDN. 2022-2025 #NGANDUproject
🦈🐚 Explore the incredible ways sharks benefit coral reefs—balancing food chains, controlling populations, and preserving biodiversity.
Let's celebrate and protect these vital partnerships for a thriving ocean! 💙
Via @TheWCS
Every time I see @Vasco_Pissarra photos I get amazed. Love this one in particular.
@ProjectNgandu is so lucky to get to use them to illustrate project progress, tasks, and outputs! 🙌🏽✨🦈🌴📸
Pantufo and Praia Melão are two communities close to the city of São Tomé with a strong fishing community where @Vasco_Pissarra has been working with fisherpeople to better understand how #sharks are important to santomean families.🦈🌴
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NGANDU's work in São Tomé continues. Focus groups are being organised by @Vasco_Pissarra close to local fishermen and palaiês (fishmongers) to unravel the social, economic & cultural value of #sharks!🦈
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A new field mission has started, now in Sao Tome Island! Last week, after a project meeting with local partners, PI @RuiafRosa and team member @Vasco_Pissarra coordinated a workshop dedicated to #shark identification and sampling techniques! #KnowledgeTransfer#NGANDUproject
Primeiro berçário de tubarões no Atlântico Este descrito em Cabo Verde🦈🏝️Estudo publicado na revista @FrontiersIn Marine Science, revela zona de berçário de tubarões em risco de extinção na ilha da Boa Vista, em Cabo Verde. @MARE_centre 🔗https://t.co/Tf8s3IuM2n
Piece at @WilderMag on the Boa Vista Island's #shark#nursery (in Portuguese)!🦈🌊
PS- Portuguese AND Cabo Verdean scientists described the area!☺️🇨🇻🇵🇹#NGANDUproject
https://t.co/Z2wvcJGj89
Our new paper is out in @FrontMarineSci!
The first potential multi-species #shark#nursery area in Atlantic Africa is located in Boa Vista Island, and used by at least 5 different shark species!! 🦈🦈
Find more below! #NGANDUproject@MARE_center@FC_UL
https://t.co/SbOYM6Q70b
New Research: Evidence for the first multi-species shark nursery area in Atlantic Africa (Boa Vista Island, Cabo Verde): This study describes the first potential multi-species shark nursery area in Atlantic Africa (Sal Rei Bay – SRB, Boa… https://t.co/Z1Mmd8EMRw #MarineScience
After 1 year of #NGANDUproject, we had our progress meeting last week! It was a great venue to share the project progress and to discuss next steps. 2 more years to go!🦈🌊🌍
Last November, team member Vasco Pissarra was at the @FaunaFloraInt Workshop in Sal Island (CV), hosted by local NGO Project Biodiversity and coordinated by @JuliaSpaet, where he had the chance to present #NGANDUproject work to national NGO’s working on different islands!📸VP
Another key task during the Boa Vista field mission was the development of interviews close to local community members to estimate the social, economic & cultural value of #sharks in the island! 🦈#NGANDUproject@MartinaPanisi@Cat_PSantos and Vasco Pissarra (📸VP & CPS)
Drones and BRUVs were also used to identify #shark species presence, abundance, and areas of aggregation around the island of Boa Vista, Cabo Verde! #NGANDUproject 📸Vasco Pissarra
Work developed under #NGANDUproject on the #shark nursery area of Boa Vista Island, Cabo Verde, was presented last October at the Ciências Research Day 2022 @FC_UL, in Lisbon. The full paper will be out next week!!🦈🦈 #ResearchDay22@MARE_centre
Vasco Pissarra was at @SharksInt2022 in Valencia last October, presenting his work on fishermen perceptions on the importance of #sharks in Sao Tome Island! Corresponding paper will come out soon! 🦈🌊 #NGANDUproject@MARE_centre