by Kate Longley-Wood | Aug 25, 2017 | Uncategorized
**March 2018 UPDATE – The Caribbean Restoration Explorer now lives on a standalone, Caribbean-focused site: http://maps.coastalresilience.org/caribbean/ Links below have been updated to reflect the new location** The Caribbean team has developed new web-based...
by Kate Longley-Wood | Jul 27, 2017 | Uncategorized
This article was originally posted on June 29th, 2017 at https://www.iucn.org/ The importance of mangrove forests – for food, carbon storage and sequestration, coastal protection, and even tourism and water purification – is widely acknowledged. So much so that there...
by Kate Longley-Wood | Jun 1, 2017 | Uncategorized
Review. Model. Map. Those are the stages that Mapping Ocean Wealth uses to build an understanding of various ecosystem services. In the review phase, scientists conduct a detailed and systematic exploration of field data, expert literature and knowledge to fully...
by Kate Longley-Wood | May 31, 2017 | Uncategorized
Piggybacking on the success of a similar project in Micronesia, the MOW team in the Caribbean recently completed a project to model coral reef fish production in the Bahamas. The ability for coral reefs to produce and maintain fish stocks has implications for overall...
by Kate Longley-Wood | Apr 27, 2017 | Uncategorized
The Mapping Ocean Wealth Initiative is the winner of the World Travel and Tourism Council (WTTC)’s 2017 Tourism for Tomorrow Innovation Award. The WTTC is dedicated to promoting awareness of the travel and tourism sector’s contribution to the economy, while promoting...