from seahorses and selfridges to society – making a real difference

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From Seahorses & Selfridges to Society

Making a real difference

Dr Heather Koldewey

and many many many collaborators

Head of Global Conservation Programmes

Zoological Society of London

@heatherkoldewey

#oceanoptimism


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Many, many, many collaborators

Jonathan Baill ie, Matt Gollock, Nick Hill, Jeremy Huet, Fiona Llewellyn, Louise Baldwin, Rebecca Short, FarinozDaneshpay, Sursthi Patel, Ruth Harries, David Curnick, Dave Tickler, Henry Duffy, Catherine Head, Miguel Correia,

Nishan Perera, Clare Duncan, Glenn Labrado, Jurgenne Primavera, Mary Grace Opena, Alfie Bartolo, Marjorie Canada,

Gene Fernandez, Jude Baguio, Josephine Savaris, Rodney Gobeque, Hazel Panes, Frank, Rosalie Joven, LindySenadoza, Scarlette Coopera, Smith Bajon, Marisa Januhan, Angelie Nellas, Pert Auxil lo, Jofel Coching, Edwin

Dumalagan, Charity Apale, Amado Blanco, Rosemarie Apurado, Bernie Calinajan, Fidel Estremos, Jennen, Arcadio,

Tony, Sheila Tacmo, Christian Montili jao, Apol Asis, Myrtle Arias, Billie Joe Redira, Francis Mari Remulta, Virginia

Masendo, Rosendo Bonghanoy, Dax Dequito, Pelsy Barber, Romel Kirit, Dalton Dacal,MaMay Saludsod, Nicholson Tan,

Alexis Cancino, Ana Mae Mendoza, Amanda Vincent, Sarah Foster, Tyler Stiem, Lucy Woodall, John Turner, Charles

Sheppard, Terry Dawson, Robert Irving, Jessica Meeuwig, Tom Letessier, Elin Kelsey, Nancy Knowlton, Elisabeth

Whitebread, Willie Mackenzie, Melissa Moore, Kate West, Charles Clover, Tom Appleby, Alastair Gammell, Heather

Bradner, Tom Hickey, Mel Moore, Jean-Luc Solandt, Terry Dawson, Robert Irving, Tom Letessier, Michele Christian,

Brian Young, Kenzo Kaifu, Katsumi Tsukamoto, Gordon MacGregor Reid, Ian Harrison, Kati Csatadi, Suzanne Turnock,

Associao de Meio Ambiente, Association of Zoos & Aquariums (AZA), Aquafil, Australian Institute of Marine Science,

Bangor University, Bioclimate, Blue Marine Foundation, Blue Ventures, British Indian Ocean Territory Administration,

Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources, Chagos Conservation Trust, Chagos Environment Network, Chagos 2012

Expedition, Chagos 2014 Expedition, ClientEarth, Chocolaterie Guylian Belgium, CORDIO, Darwin Initiative, Departmentfor Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra), European Association of Zoos and Aquaria (EAZA), Fisheries &

Aquaculture Science, Fauna & Flora International, Fishmongers Company Charitable Trust, Environment Agency,

European Commission, Foreign and Commonwealth Office, Fondation Bertarelli, Galapagos Conservation Trust, GIZ

ACCCoast Initiative, GIZ GmbH, Greenpeace UK, Harmsworth Memorial Trust, High Seas Alliance, Imperial College

London, Interface, International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN), International League of Conservation

Photographers, IUCN Species Survival Commission (SSC), IUCN Anguillid Sub-group, IUCN Freshwater Fish Specialist

Group, IUCN Mangrove Specialist Group, IUCN Seahorse, Pipefish and Stickleback Group, IUCN SSC Shark Specialist

Group, The Manta Trust, Marine Conservation Society, Marine Reserves Coalition, Ministre des Forts et de la Faune

de la Rpublique du Cameroun, Natural England, National Geographic Society, Oceana, Ocean Park Conservation

Foundation, Hong Kong, Overseas Territories Directorate, Palmas de Gran Canaria, PEW Charitable Trusts, Pitcairn

Environment Group, Pitcairn Island Government, Project Seahorse, Royal Botanic Gardens Kew, Royal Holloway

University of London, Royal Society, Royal Society for the Protection of Birds (RSPB), Sargasso Sea Alliance, Sea-

Scope Marine Environment Consultants, Selfridges & Co, Simon Fraser University, Stanford University, St AndrewsUniversity, Swansea University, Synchronicity Earth, University College London, UNEP World Conservation Monitoring

Centre, University of the Algarve, University of Bangor, University of British Columbia, University College London,

University of Dhaka, University of Dundee, University of Kalmar, University of Oxford, University of Western Australia,

The Waterloo Foundation, Warwick University, Whitley Fund for Nature, Wildlife Trusts


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How do you feelabout the state of the ocean?


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We contend that there isa continuing culture of

hopelessness among

conservation biologists.

2010 editorial, BioScience.

HOPELESSNESS

AMONG SCIENTISTS


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Dramatic changes within our lifetime
http://www.google.co.uk/url?sa=i&source=images&cd=&cad=rja&docid=yKhJVKrURZxvtM&tbnid=uAyNgbXbxClFfM:&ved=0CAgQjRwwAA&url=http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/lifestyle/2013/08/waves-of-trash-in-surfer-paradise/&ei=NvZMUvLNBMaxhAeP1IDICg&psig=AFQjCNHk9wdme3voEDWsMr1qCwh50O-2Sg&ust=1380861878133925http://www.google.co.uk/url?sa=i&source=images&cd=&cad=rja&docid=yKhJVKrURZxvtM&tbnid=uAyNgbXbxClFfM:&ved=0CAgQjRwwAA&url=http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/lifestyle/2013/08/waves-of-trash-in-surfer-paradise/&ei=NvZMUvLNBMaxhAeP1IDICg&psig=AFQjCNHk9wdme3voEDWsMr1qCwh50O-2Sg&ust=1380861878133925


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Growing evidence of children and adultsfeeling overwhelmed and hopeless aboutthe state of the environment

Ecophobia (Sobel, 1996)

Environmental Grief(Windle, 1995; Kervorkian,2010;)

Environmental Depression(Lysack, 2009; Zeyer &Kelsey, 2011)

Environmental Apathy(Rene Lertzman, 2008;Twenge, Campbell andFreeman, 2012)

Compassion Fatigue (Moeller,1999; Dominelli, 2012)


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Bashir, N. Y., Lockwood, P., Chasteen, A. L., Nadolny, D. and Noyes, I. (2013), The

ironic impact of activists: Negative stereotypes reduce social change influence. Eur.

J. Soc. Psychol., 43: 614626. doi: 10.1002/ejsp.1983


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How do you see the future of the ocean?


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What are our options?

Flickr/JustCallMe_Bethy_


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What are our options?

#oceanoptimism


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What happens if we are optimistic?


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How we choose to present information


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Ecologists should learn to look on thebright side

The planet is in a bad state but remorseless

pessimism is a turn-off. Its time conservationists

talked up their successes.

Kelsey, January 2012


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The Ocean is at crisis point


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Beyond the Obituaries

Telling the stories ofsuccessin marine conservationProfessor Nancy Knowlton, Smithsonian Institution

IMCC 2011 www.ocean.si.edu


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International Marine ConservationCongress, Glasgow August 2014

Where are recovery,

success, improved ?


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Coastal Futures, London January 2015

Where are effective, recovery,

success, improved ?


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Success in Marine Conservation

Saving Species

Protecting Spaces

Harvesting WiselyRestoring Habitats

Reducing Pollution

My experiences


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Seahorses

as cute as a fish gets


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Vulnerable...

Seagrasses Coral Reefs

Estuaries Mangroves


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Vulnerable....


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Vulnerable...


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Project Seahorse in the Philippines


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Working with fishing communities


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Community managed no-take MPAs

Community liaison and training Watchtowers and patrol boats

MPA monitoringCommunity engagement


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10

km

Cebu

City

Project Seahorse assisted MPAs

Danajon Bank


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Bohol

Danajon Bank

10

km

Project Seahorse Assisted Marine Protected Areas


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MPA effectivenessecological vs socioeconomic

Hansen et al., 2011

Even small reserves can

increase abundance of mostvaluable species (for

fisheries).

Enforcement critical

Diverse benefits e.g.

social capital (measured astrust, social cohesion,

community support,

compliance)


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Thinking localand being pragmatic

MCS

MCS

Guylian

The choice is not between perfect and imperfect

advice/action, its between imperfect and none at all.

(Johannes, 2006)

Everything we know indicates that the longer we wait

to create no-take pieces of the sea, the more difficultit will be to do so (more users with more entrenched

interests) and less we will benefit (more damage

taking longer to restore). It is not sensible to delay.

(Ballantine 1997)

Dont just gather data, do something. Scientists need

to stop using a lack of knowledge as an excuse for

not doing more to protect threatened species.

(Vincent, 2014)


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Resource limitations

A challenge for

conservationists

Globally, there are fewer than

15 scientists studying seahorses

in the wild.

Most seahorse species are Data

Deficient


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iSeahorsewww.iseahorse.org

iSeahorse is a website and mobile app

that allows anyone, anywhere in the

world to contribute to seahorse

science and conservation.


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Actual surveys


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Data inform management


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Uneven habitat representation


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MANGROVES PONDS

1918: 450,000 ha 1940: 61,000 ha

2010: 240,800 ha 1994: 232,000 ha

Present MANGROVE: POND RATIO - 1: 1

IDEAL RATIO (Saenger et al 1983) - 4: 1

Mangroves to fishponds (Primavera, 2000)


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Protect remaining mangrove forest


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Expand mangrove area through replanting

Apr 2007 Apr 2008


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May 2011

Apr 2012

Photo J.H. Primavera

Mar 2009

May 2010


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Maintain mangrove biodiversity

Oct 2009 Revert fishponds to mangtoves


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Oct 2009

Mar 2012Jan 2011

Mar 2011Revert fishponds to mangtoves


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Increasing MPA area and resilience

Lipata MPA 10 ha 104.2 ha

Sinandigan MPA 50 ha 245.4 ha

Aquino-Ondoy MPA 35 ha 102.8 ha

15th O t b 2013


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15th October 20137.2 magnitude earthquake, Bohol and Cebu

N b 8th 2013 T h H i


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November 8th 2013, Typhoon Haiyan(Yolanda locally)


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Aid distribution social resilience


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Ecological impacts of earthquake


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Mangroves post-Haiyan

Marge de la Cruz


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Ecological resilience

Marge de la Cruz


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Mapping damage

~30%

~5%


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Changing the way we communicate


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Perceptions

Science Fashion


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Store windows


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Making a difference - 2011

Save our Sharks

2013 removed all shark byproducts


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Save our Sharks

Selfridges Beauty Hall

2015 i d b i


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2015 marine debris

Pacific gyre

8 million items of marine debrisenter our oceans every day

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Strength through collaboration



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Marine

ReservesCoalition


www.marinereservescoalition.org

Th S lf id MPA Phili i


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The Selfridges MPA Philippines

Th bi h ll


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The big challenge

I ti h N t W k


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Innovative approaches - Net-Works

N t W k


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Net-Works

www.net-works.com

#ocea


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