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					<title>Cabo Verde program and its fishers have been protecting the sea for 10 years</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2026/07/cabo-verde-program-and-its-fishers-have-been-protecting-the-sea-for-10-years/</link>
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					<pubDate>07 Jul 2026 16:44:25 +0000</pubDate>
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							<![CDATA[Alice PistolesiMonica Pelliccia]]>
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										<author>
						<![CDATA[Rebecca Kessler]]>
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							<![CDATA[Africa, Cape Verde, and West Africa]]>
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							<![CDATA[Community-based Conservation, Conservation, Environment, Fish, Fisheries, Fishing, Islands, Marine, Marine Conservation, and Oceans]]>
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							<![CDATA[FOGO, Cabo Verde — Alberto Martius had just returned to shore in his white and blue wooden boat with his 18-year-old son, Leandro. The pair had been fishing off their home island of Fogo in the Cabo Verde archipelago off northwestern Africa. While out, they were also keeping an eye on the sea. “I’m proud [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[FOGO, Cabo Verde — Alberto Martius had just returned to shore in his white and blue wooden boat with his 18-year-old son, Leandro. The pair had been fishing off their home island of Fogo in the Cabo Verde archipelago off northwestern Africa. While out, they were also keeping an eye on the sea. “I’m proud my son is following in my footsteps, protecting the ocean,” Martius told Mongabay. “I feel I’m doing the right thing to protect the sea. Almost every day, I’m patrolling this area to monitor marine animals and make them return as numerous as they were when I was a little kid.” The Martiuses volunteer with an initiative called Guardians of the Sea that celebrated its 10th anniversary in June. Run by eight local and international NGOs and led by the Maio Biodiversity Foundation at the national level, it trains and supports fishers to serve as voluntary ocean observers as they go about their daily fishing work. Among other tasks, they monitor megafauna and collect data on illegal activities during their fishing trips. Around 190 fishers are involved, working around seven of the archipelago’s 10 islands. The program launched on the island of Maio in 2016 and expanded to its seventh island, São Antão, with 30 guardians, in 2024. Fishers have always been a pillar of Cabo Verde&#8217;s economy and identity. The country hosts a fleet of around 1,535 vessels, ranging from artisanal to semi-industrial, and the sector provides a livelihood for coastal families. Alberto Martius with&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2026/07/cabo-verde-program-and-its-fishers-have-been-protecting-the-sea-for-10-years/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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										<doi>https://doi.org/10.66709/news-322706</doi>				</item>
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					<title>Linking biodiversity protection with community development in an era of crisis (commentary)</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2025/10/rethinking-conservation-in-an-era-of-crisis-commentary/</link>
					<comments>https://news.mongabay.com/2025/10/rethinking-conservation-in-an-era-of-crisis-commentary/#respond</comments>
					<pubDate>10 Oct 2025 12:52:53 +0000</pubDate>
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							<![CDATA[Dheeraj Jayant]]>
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										<author>
						<![CDATA[Erik Hoffner]]>
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							<![CDATA[Navigating conservation's crisis]]>
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							<![CDATA[Africa, Cape Verde, and West Africa]]>
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							<![CDATA[Bioeconomy, Commentary, Community Development, Conservation, Development, Environment, and Sustainable Development]]>
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							<![CDATA[The interlinked planetary crises of climate change, pollution, and biodiversity loss are losing significant ground in the global political agenda. From the ground, it seems as though even environmental discourse and momentum are weakening, as urgent geopolitical and economic priorities push concrete action to the margins. Overseas development aid and conservation finance is shrinking, often [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[The interlinked planetary crises of climate change, pollution, and biodiversity loss are losing significant ground in the global political agenda. From the ground, it seems as though even environmental discourse and momentum are weakening, as urgent geopolitical and economic priorities push concrete action to the margins. Overseas development aid and conservation finance is shrinking, often creating conflict between actors, and the North–South divide is widening. Conflicts, shifting power balances, and unsustainable development models in megadiverse countries continue to erode ecosystems at alarming speed. Efforts to construct market mechanisms for biodiversity, such as access and benefit-sharing (ABS) under the Convention on Biological Diversity, have largely failed to deliver. After three decades of negotiations, frameworks like the Nagoya Protocol have generated enormous transaction costs but little tangible progress for biodiversity or justice. Confusion persists, entrenched political positions stall progress, and communities remain sidelined in processes that were meant to empower them. Likewise, ecotourism — once heralded as a win-win — often produces limited benefits when poorly designed, sometimes intensifying tensions with local people. Both ABS and ecotourism highlight the pitfalls of overreliance on market instruments to deliver justice and conservation at scale. In many megadiverse regions, the major components of biodiversity are found in rural landscapes, where they are managed and stewarded by local communities. Yet these very communities are under immense strain. Climate change, exploitative land regimes, the absence of meaningful employment opportunities, and lack of adequate public services are driving a rural exodus that is becoming increasingly difficult to halt&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2025/10/rethinking-conservation-in-an-era-of-crisis-commentary/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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										<doi>https://doi.org/10.66709/news-307197</doi>				</item>
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					<title>Former poachers guard Cabo Verde’s endangered sea turtles</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2025/08/former-poachers-guard-cabo-verdes-endangered-sea-turtles/</link>
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					<pubDate>04 Aug 2025 18:03:23 +0000</pubDate>
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							<![CDATA[Sonam Lama Hyolmo]]>
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						<![CDATA[Latoya Abulu]]>
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							<![CDATA[Africa, Atlantic Ocean, Cape Verde, and West Africa]]>
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							<![CDATA[Animals, Biodiversity, Conservation, Environment, Hunting, Illegal Trade, Marine, Marine Animals, Oceans, Poaching, Sea Turtles, Trade, and Turtles]]>
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							<![CDATA[Seven years into patrolling on Cabo Verde’s islands, Roni Nelson Batista Ramos now protects endangered sea turtles on the beaches where he once poached them. A few decades ago, he hunted sea turtles to feed his family, he says, since consuming turtle meat was a common practice among locals on his island. Back then, all [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[Seven years into patrolling on Cabo Verde’s islands, Roni Nelson Batista Ramos now protects endangered sea turtles on the beaches where he once poached them. A few decades ago, he hunted sea turtles to feed his family, he says, since consuming turtle meat was a common practice among locals on his island. Back then, all he did was hunt turtles, and it was free food on the table, Ramos tells Mongabay. However, after stricter conservation efforts and new legislation that criminalized killing threatened turtle species, poaching activities plummeted in the country. Many poachers were fined and struggled to adapt to a new life. “I had turtle meat for personal consumption and never realized I could make a living out of conserving them,” he says. “But now, I guard them against the poachers, and it’s motivating to see how these efforts have driven positive impacts for their conservation.” Ramos is among about a dozen former poachers who have been employed by conservation organizations to keep poaching numbers low on the country’s beaches. According to the Turtle Foundation, illegal catches of female turtles on the island of Boa Vista have declined from 1,253 in 2007 to just 20 in 2024. Meanwhile, in the same period, loggerhead turtle nests on the island increased more than sevenfold. Rangers find a sea turtle on the Lacacão beach during a morning census. Image courtesy of The Turtle Foundation. A ranger measuring a turtle’s shell and collecting data at the Canto camp. Image courtesy of The Turtle&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2025/08/former-poachers-guard-cabo-verdes-endangered-sea-turtles/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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										<doi>https://doi.org/10.66709/news-303705</doi>				</item>
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					<title>&#8216;Shifting baselines&#8217; in Cabo Verde after 50 years of declining fish stocks</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2024/12/shifting-baselines-in-cabo-verde-after-50-years-of-declining-fish-stocks/</link>
					<comments>https://news.mongabay.com/2024/12/shifting-baselines-in-cabo-verde-after-50-years-of-declining-fish-stocks/#respond</comments>
					<pubDate>16 Dec 2024 18:43:46 +0000</pubDate>
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							<![CDATA[Edward Carver]]>
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						<![CDATA[Rebecca Kessler]]>
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							<![CDATA[Africa, Atlantic Ocean, Cape Verde, and West Africa]]>
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							<![CDATA[Animals, Conservation, Ecosystems, Environment, Fish, Fisheries, Fishing, Global Environmental Crisis, Illegal Fishing, Marine, Marine Animals, Marine Conservation, Oceans, Overfishing, and Saltwater Fish]]>
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							<![CDATA[In Cabo Verde, as in many low-income countries in Africa, the historical record of fish catch is incomplete, making it hard to know what’s been lost and what’s required to fully rebuild. In a new study, researchers used an old-fashioned workaround to understand how fish catches have changed over time: They tapped local knowledge, speaking [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[In Cabo Verde, as in many low-income countries in Africa, the historical record of fish catch is incomplete, making it hard to know what’s been lost and what’s required to fully rebuild. In a new study, researchers used an old-fashioned workaround to understand how fish catches have changed over time: They tapped local knowledge, speaking to Cabo Verdeans up to 77 years old. The study, recently published in the journal Marine Policy, indicates there’s been a “staggering decline” in fish stocks around Maio, one of the archipelagic nation’s 10 islands, since the 1970s, in terms of both volume of catch and maximum size of key species. The study also shows that young fishers and fishmongers don’t fully realize the scale of the loss — a case of what scientists call “shifting baselines.” Younger people on Maio tend not to perceive the decline “because they don&#8217;t know what is the normal state of the environment, of the fishing and of the catch,” study lead author Thais Peixoto Macedo, a Ph.D. student at the Institute of Environmental Science and Technology in Barcelona, told Mongabay. Cabo Verde is an archipelagic nation in the Eastern Atlantic Ocean some 570 kilometers (350 miles) west of Senegal. Its exclusive access zone covers an area larger than Texas. Cabo Verde lies in the Eastern Atlantic Ocean, some 570 kilometers (350 miles) west of Senegal on the African mainland. It’s considered part of West Africa, a region rich in marine resources but also threatened by intense fishing pressure.&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2024/12/shifting-baselines-in-cabo-verde-after-50-years-of-declining-fish-stocks/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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										<doi>https://doi.org/10.66709/news-291733</doi>				</item>
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					<title>Have the &#8216;Bandit 6&#8217; poached their last toothfish in the Southern Ocean?</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2015/06/have-the-bandit-6-poached-their-last-toothfish-in-the-southern-ocean/</link>
					<comments>https://news.mongabay.com/2015/06/have-the-bandit-6-poached-their-last-toothfish-in-the-southern-ocean/#respond</comments>
					<pubDate>01 Jun 2015 21:15:00 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Mike Gaworecki]]>
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										<author>
						<![CDATA[Rebecca Kessler]]>
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							<![CDATA[Africa, Cape Verde, and Southern Ocean]]>
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							<![CDATA[Environment, Fisheries, Green, Illegal Fishing, and Oceans]]>
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							<![CDATA[Authorities in Cape Verde board the Songhua, a vessel known to poach toothfish in the Southern Ocean. Photo credit: Sea Shepherd/Josephine Watmore On May 20, Peter Hammarstedt, captain of the ship Bob Barker, was in the Cape Verdean port of Mindelo off the coast of West Africa, when he spotted a ship that he thought [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[Authorities in Cape Verde board the Songhua, a vessel known to poach toothfish in the Southern Ocean. Photo credit: Sea Shepherd/Josephine Watmore On May 20, Peter Hammarstedt, captain of the ship Bob Barker, was in the Cape Verdean port of Mindelo off the coast of West Africa, when he spotted a ship that he thought looked a lot like a pirate fishing vessel he&#8217;d been patrolling the Southern Ocean trying to locate for months. The ship bore a different name, but after sending photos to the New Zealand Ministry for Primary Industries, Hammarstedt confirmed that it was indeed a known poaching vessel called the Songhua. The vessel was on Interpol&#8217;s wanted list, thanks in part to information fed to the agency by Sea Shepherd, the ocean conservation group that owns the Bob Barker. Soon, a second vessel pulled in alongside the Songhua, and it proved to be the Yongding — though it, too, was going by another name. The Songhua and the Yongding are two of six Illegal, Unregulated, Unreported (IUU) fishing vessels dubbed the &#8220;Bandit 6&#8221; by Sea Shepherd because they are the last remaining, and among the most notorious, poachers of Patagonian toothfish (Dissostichus eleginoides) and Antarctic toothfish (D. mawsoni) in the waters around Antarctica. The species are tasty, long-lived, slow-growing relatives of cod that are typically sold as Chilean sea bass in North America. Each of the ships can hold more than $1 million worth of toothfish. Their catches are never officially recorded and hence cannot be&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2015/06/have-the-bandit-6-poached-their-last-toothfish-in-the-southern-ocean/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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										<doi>https://doi.org/10.66709/news-23594</doi>				</item>
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					<title>Flag states can be held liable for violations of fishing vessels abroad, international tribunal rules</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2015/05/flag-states-can-be-held-liable-for-violations-of-fishing-vessels-abroad-international-tribunal-rules/</link>
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					<pubDate>19 May 2015 13:35:00 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Melati Kaye]]>
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										<author>
						<![CDATA[Rebecca Kessler]]>
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							<![CDATA[Africa, Cape Verde, Gambia, Global, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Mauritania, Senegal, Sierra Leone, and West Africa]]>
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							<![CDATA[Environment, Fish, Fisheries, Green, Illegal Fishing, Law Enforcement, and Oceans]]>
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							<![CDATA[Yu Feng, a vessel with Taiwanese flags suspected of fishing illegally, sails near Sierra Leone in 2009 before being detained by the U.S. Coast Guard and Sierra Leonean government agencies. Photo credit: U.S. Department of Defense/Petty Officer 2nd Class Shawn Eggert, U.S. Coast Guard. The International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea ruled in [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[Yu Feng, a vessel with Taiwanese flags suspected of fishing illegally, sails near Sierra Leone in 2009 before being detained by the U.S. Coast Guard and Sierra Leonean government agencies. Photo credit: U.S. Department of Defense/Petty Officer 2nd Class Shawn Eggert, U.S. Coast Guard. The International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea ruled in April that countries have responsibility for the actions of the fishing vessels they license, even when those boats operate abroad. The tribunal held that &#8220;flag states&#8221; have to take &#8220;due diligence&#8221; measures to ensure that the boats they license obey regulations in other countries. If not, the flag state can be taken to court by the country where its boats are fishing through illegal, underreported, or unregulated (IUU) means. This means that the Gambia, for example, could take the European Union to court if a boat flying the German flag nets more than its allowed catch and the EU cannot demonstrate that it took measures to prevent such misconduct. The tribunal made its ruling in the form of an advisory opinion responding to a request filed by the Sub-Regional Fisheries Commission (SRFC) in 2013. The commission manages fisheries and inter-state cooperation between the West African countries of Mauritania, Senegal, Cape Verde, the Gambia, Guinea-Bissau, Guinea, and Sierra Leone. &#8220;Half the capture in these waters is illegally fished,&#8221; said Diénaba Bèye Traoré, head of the commission&#8217;s department on policy and legislation and its agent to the tribunal, in an interview with mongabay.com. Foreign trawlers from as&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2015/05/flag-states-can-be-held-liable-for-violations-of-fishing-vessels-abroad-international-tribunal-rules/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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										<doi>https://doi.org/10.66709/news-23661</doi>				</item>
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					<title>Nano-tags track baby sea turtles during their first few hours</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2014/12/nano-tags-track-baby-sea-turtles-during-their-first-few-hours/</link>
					<comments>https://news.mongabay.com/2014/12/nano-tags-track-baby-sea-turtles-during-their-first-few-hours/#respond</comments>
					<pubDate>03 Dec 2014 15:37:00 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Leigh Cooper]]>
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						<![CDATA[Mongabay Editor]]>
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							<![CDATA[Africa, Cape Verde, and Germany]]>
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							<![CDATA[Animal Behavior, Animals, Endangered Species, Environment, Green, Marine, Marine Animals, Reptiles, Sea Turtles, and Wildlife]]>
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							<![CDATA[Miniature acoustic tags allow researchers to track newborn sea turtles during &#8216;swimming frenzy&#8217; Baby sea turtles vanish after they scamper into the ocean. Years later, juvenile turtles may pop up thousands of kilometers away, but often scientists don&#8217;t see them again until they return to their birthplaces to nest on the beach. Now, using tiny [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[Miniature acoustic tags allow researchers to track newborn sea turtles during &#8216;swimming frenzy&#8217; Baby sea turtles vanish after they scamper into the ocean. Years later, juvenile turtles may pop up thousands of kilometers away, but often scientists don&#8217;t see them again until they return to their birthplaces to nest on the beach. Now, using tiny tracking tags weighing no more than two watermelon seeds, a team has followed newborn loggerhead turtles during their first critical hours at sea, revealing how they evade predators and hitch rides on the ocean&#8217;s currents. The satellite tags used by marine biologists to track whales, sharks, and adult turtles are much too large to attach to baby turtles. This has forced biologists to use computer models to simulate where hatchlings may drift during their first few days at sea. But the models aren’t very detailed, and they ignore winds, tides, and how vigorously the turtles themselves might paddle. A new study, supported by The Future Ocean, GEOMAR, QMUL and Turtle Foundation, tracked newborn loggerhead sea turtles, all populations of which are endangered or threatened. The streamlined, lightweight tags did not affect how the turtles swam. The tags fell off after a few days. Credit: Rebecca Scott. In the new study, a team led by marine biologist Rebecca Scott of the GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research in Kiel, Germany, used acoustic transmitters weighing just 0.65 grams (0.02 ounces) each. They glued these &#8220;nano-tags&#8221; to the shells of 11 newborn loggerhead sea turtles (Caretta caretta) on&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2014/12/nano-tags-track-baby-sea-turtles-during-their-first-few-hours/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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