Stories and News

• Impact Stories
• South West Indian Ocean
• Sustainable blue economy
• Women and food security

On Mafia Island, Tanzania, where tradition runs as deep as the ocean the coastal community protects and depends on, a new chapter is being written. In Kanga Village, the Hiari Women Group is stepping out of traditionally-defined roles, transforming their newly found skill for seaweed farming into a living evolution of their community’s heritage.

• Impact Stories
• Latin America and Caribbean
• Women and food security

"Like many women, I am several roles in a single person: mother, wife, housewife, worker, social leader, and micro-entrepreneur, but one of the most important, and I say this with great pride, is that I am a woman of the sea." Carmen Díaz Vargas, artisanal fisher, shipowner and diver's assistant, Isla Grande de Chiloé, Chile.

• Coastal climate resilience

As the dust settles on outcomes of COP30, the CCI explores how the conference met - or fell short of - the needs and expectations of coastal communities.

• Coastal climate resilience
• Impact Stories
• Ocean governance
• Pacific

In the stillness of dawn, before the sun gilds the Pacific horizon, the ocean speaks. It speaks in the hush of waves against mangrove roots, in the rustle of pandanus leaves, in the chants of elders who remember the old ways. For the Indigenous Peoples of Oceania, the ocean is a living ancestor, a keeper of stories, a bearer of truth.

• Coastal climate resilience
• Coral Triangle
• Ocean governance

"Induh gumih rukut ranting (mother nature) speaks through those who are closest to her." This case study explores the practice of actively listening and embedding community knowledge and voices in strengthening local governance in Bataraza and Balabac, Province of Palawan, Philippines. Read the full case study, here:

• Coastal climate resilience
• Coral Triangle

In East Kalimantan, Indonesia, it doesn’t take a village to restore marine ecosystems; rather it takes an archipelago. Faced with a history of destructive fishing, the communities of Derawan Islands took it upon themselves to work together – across different groups – to restore coral reefs in Derawan, all for a better future.

• Coastal climate resilience
• Coral Triangle
• Ocean governance

Noticing changes in the volume of their fish catches, duration of fishing, and need to travel ever-increasing distances to be able to fish, the community of Kampung Asai in Papua drew upon traditional knowledge to better manage their marine resources. After learning about the success of sasi (or: 'prohibition') from the community in Menarbu – […]

• Coastal climate resilience
• Coral Triangle

Tun Mustapha Park, also known as the largest multiple-use Marine Protected Area in Malaysia, measures almost 900,000 hectares with remarkably high biodiversity, harbouring coral reefs, mangroves, sea grasses and productive fishing grounds. This case study highlights the pilot ecosystem restoration efforts through partnership, replicable technologies transfer and learning. The restoration efforts also emphasised on nature-based solutions over man-made solutions in the management for Marine Protected Areas.