Incentivising community-led marine biodiversity conservation on Atauro Island
Key Facts
FUNDING SCHEME Main Project
VALUE £295,215
WHERE East Timor
Summary
By empowering communities for locally-led marine resource assessment and management, and introducing homestay tourism to diversify incomes, the project will enable traditional fishers to rebuild fishing stocks and attain more sustainable livelihoods, helping arrest the loss of exceptional marine biodiversity and safeguard food security for over 9,000 people.
Reducing fishing pressure and protecting priority biodiversity areas in Timor-Leste through community-based marine resource management and sustainable alternative livelihoods benefiting 9,000 people in coastal communities.
Ministry of Arts Culture and Tourism, Government of Timor-Leste, MAFF Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries, Government of Timor-Leste, Ministry of Commerce Industry and Environment (Directorate of Biodiversity), Asosiasi Usaha Homestay Lokal Kabupaten Raja Ampat, Seventythree Ltd, WorldFish Center
