In 2025, São Tomé and Príncipe reached a historic milestone for ocean conservation with the announcement and subsequent approval of the country’s first eight Marine Protected Areas (MPAs). The designation was announced by the Minister of Environment, Youth and Sustainable Tourism, Nilda Borges da Mata, during the United Nations Ocean Conference (UNOC) in Nice, France, where she highlighted the creation of the country’s first MPAs as a pioneering step towards the global 30×

The Omali Vida Nón project is recruiting a Graphic Designer to provide graphic design services within the scope of the creation of Marine...

The project to establish a Network of Marine Protected Areas in São Tomé and Príncipe through a co-management approach, Omali Vida Nón...

Last July, the Omali Vida Nón and Kike da Mungu project team began a new round of socio-economic research in fishing communities...

The efforts of Fauna and Flora, Fundação Príncipe, Oikos and MARAPA have focused on collecting holistic data on fishing activity, marine...

In the process of implementing alternative sources of income to support fishing communities known as “community ideas”, the Omali Vida...

As part of the project to establish a “Network of Marine Protected Areas (MPAs) in São Tomé and Príncipe”, a workshop has been taking place since last week to identify mechanisms for creating a national plan to develop a strategy for monitoring and supervising marine protected areas. To this end, we have two consultants from WildAid, an American non-profit organization, who have contributed to its definition, in order to ensure and conserve marine biodiversity, the sustainab

After the team completed fieldwork to collect data with BRUVs (Baited Remote Underwater Videos) last year, we are now working on...