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- Widespread experience with numerous Environmental Impact Assessments and Feasibility Studies for a wide range of infrastructure projects over a period of 24 years and production of Management Plans
My work focuses human disturbance and environmental variability affect persistence and recovery of marine systems, and how we can manage complex systems for long term sustainability. I have worked for over 20 years designing research and conservation projects to address conservation challenges in East Africa and the Western Indian Ocean. I use a combination of tools including capacity building, field studies, collaborative research, development of management strategies, and long-term data collection.
Farid Dahdouh-Guebas has been working on mangrove forests in Africa and Asia since the 1990s. His research output include nearly 200 peer-reviewed papers covering mangrove vegetation science, remote sensing, restoration ecology, ethnobiology and systems ecology (linking to management and governance). He is part of IUCN's Species Survival Commission's Mangrove Specialist Group.
He is also the Founding Director and General Coordinator of the excellence labeled EC-funded Erasmus Mundus Joint Master Degree in Tropical Biodiversity and Ecosystems - TROPIMUNDO.
Jennifer Olbers obtained her PhD degree from the University of Cape Town in taxonomy and marine biogeography. Jennifer worked at the Oceanographic Research Institute while completing her MSc degree and gained experience in benthic monitoring and aquaculture practices.
She joined Ezemvelo KZN Wildlife, as a marine ecologist where she was involved in the implementation and coordination of various marine and coastal monitoring programmes. She also coordinated the KZN Marine Animal Stranding Network in which all marine stranded animals were managed along the KZN coastline.
HAFIDH ALI HAFIDH, is an assistant researcher and consultant at Zanzibar University Research and Consultancy Center also I am teacher at International School of Zanzibar. I have studied Postgraduate of Ocean Governance and I also have Master of business Administration.
Policy Expert
- Head of Department at the Ministry in charges of Mines and Strategic Resources, Madagascar since 2013
- Representative of Madagascar team in the JOGMEC/SADC Remote Sensing Competition in 2018, 3rd place, Lobatse-Botswana
- MPA development and management
- Local communities capacity building
- Fisheries management
I specialise in the physical dynamics of estuaries; estuarine condition assessments; environmental flow requirements; climate change impacts on estuaries; and estuary management and policy. I am part of a core team that developed environmental flow requirements technologies for South Africa, e.g. Version 1, 2 and 3 of the eflows methods for estuaries. I have been involved in over 40 freshwater flow requirement (EFR) studies on estuaries in Southern Africa as project leader or hydrodynamics / physical process specialist.
I am a mid-career professional, a former fisheries officer and currently a Marine Conservation Warden at Mafia Island Marine Park. I deal with conservation and management of marine resources and its environment for 7 years now. I have a degree in Fisheries and Aquaculture from the University of Dar es Salaam (UDSM) and recently graduated a joint Erasmus Mundus Master Course on Maritime Spatial Planning from Venice, Azore and Sevilla Universities.