Manner Kambas Fisheries Reserve within the east coast of Lampung Province, Indonesia. Credit score: Meutia I. Wulandari/EDF
By: Abdul Halim1, Amehr Hakim2, Gemma Carroll3, and Annie Mark4
In only a few weeks, on October 21st, 2024, delegations from 196 nations social gathering to the Conference on Organic Variety (CBD) will come collectively for its 16th Convention of Events (COP16) in Cali, Colombia, to overview progress, set priorities and decide to new workplans to sort out biodiversity loss and safeguard nature and the well-being of individuals all over the world.
This would be the first assembly to overview worldwide progress on implementing the historic Kunming-Montréal International Biodiversity Framework (the “Biodiversity Plan”) adopted in December 2022 at COP15. The Biodiversity Plan goals to halter and reverse biodiversity loss by 2050, setting out a worldwide imaginative and prescient for a world residing in concord with nature. Among the many biodiversity targets specified by the Biodiversity Plan is the so-called “30×30” Goal. Events dedicated to conserving no less than 30% of terrestrial, inland water, coastal and marine areas by 2030, via ecologically consultant, well-connected and equitably ruled techniques of protected areas and different efficient area-based conservation measures that acknowledge Indigenous and conventional territories and techniques of environmental stewardship.
As a part of its dedication to assembly this goal, the Indonesian Ministry of Marine Affairs and Fisheries (MMAF) has adopted the Indonesia Marine Conservation Imaginative and prescient to designate 30% of its coastal and marine waters for conservation by 2045. For Indonesia, the 2045 timeline is extra achievable than 2030 and aligns with the celebration of the nation’s centennial anniversary. Underneath the federal government’s dedication, 97.5 million hectares of coastal and marine waters can be designated for conservation areas, offering substantial new protections within the Coral Triangle area—the worldwide epicenter of marine biodiversity and a supply of protein and livelihoods for greater than 120 million individuals.
Equally necessary to committing to marine protected areas (MPAs) is guaranteeing that designated protected areas are successfully managed. That is important to make sure that protected areas successfully shield biodiversity and that communities profit from sustainable livelihoods, together with tourism and environmentally accountable fishing. Whereas most MPAs are optimized for biodiversity conservation and eco-tourism, many fail to account for sustainable fishing actions. This hole overlooks the important position that fisheries play in Indonesia in preserving conventional practices, offering jobs and revenue, and feeding the inhabitants.
This sentiment is shared by communities residing in Indonesia’s coastal villages. In a night villagers’ gathering in Kambala Village of Kaimana in West Papua Province of Indonesia in August 2018, Pak Abu Uriepa, a non secular chief of the village expressed his concern that the established MPA in Kaimana has primarily been specializing in defending habitats and selling tourism, with little consideration for enhancing the financial well-being of native individuals. As a result of restricted accessibility, tourism has not but elevated in Kaimana, and coastal communities are nonetheless extremely depending on fishing for his or her livelihoods.
In response to this want, in early 2023 MMAF established the Manner Kambas Marine Protected Space on the east coast of Lampung Province, the primary MPA in Indonesia to characteristic a “core zone” particularly for safeguarding delicate habitats, important for the lifecycle of Blue Swimming Crabs (BSC). This new reserve is positioned inside the Blue Swimming Crab (BSC) Fisheries Administration Space (FMA), which is designed to extend the well being and productiveness of the BSC fishery.
By explicitly integrating conservation and sustainable fishing targets, the Manner Kambas reserve might, if efficiently carried out, function an necessary and replicable instance of how MPAs and FMAs may be aligned and co-managed to attain the dual targets of biodiversity safety and small-scale business fishery sustainability. EDF is happy to work with the Lampung Provincial authorities, native communities and different stakeholders to pilot the implementation of MPA and FMA integration on the bottom in Lampung.
Momentum for related efforts to successfully handle MPAs alongside sustainable fisheries is gaining traction in different Indonesian provinces. The North Maluku provincial authorities is about to revise and enhance the efficacy of the Governor Regulation that defines the native grouper and snapper motion plan that comes with MPAs as a fisheries administration instrument. This could open extra alternatives to pilot the combination of MPA and fisheries to deal with biodiversity loss, safeguard nature, and contribute to the well-being of individuals within the Coral Triangle.
We applaud the efforts of the Indonesian authorities to advertise the specific integration of MPA and FMA governance and administration to concurrently obtain the triple backside line of sustainability targets which are ecologically sound, economically viable and socially acceptable, in-line with the targets of the CBD Biodiversity Plan. With this method, we imagine that the considerations of native communities for larger financial empowerment and meals safety, like these expressed in Kambala village, can be correctly addressed as Indonesia takes motion to attain its biodiversity safety targets.
1 Environmental Protection Fund, Local weather Resilient Fisheries and Oceans, Indonesia.
2 Ministry of Marine Affairs and Fisheries of the Republic of Indonesia, Jakarta.
3 Environmental Protection Fund, Oceans and Local weather Scientist, Australia.
4 Environmental Protection Fund, International Partnerships, Germany.
