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Protecting marine biodiversity in the East Indian Ocean

August 23, 2019 2:48 pm Published by

National Task Force workshops in Madagascar and Mauritius

Brazil Task Force is part of BIOINC XIII

August 12, 2019 4:43 pm Published by

The Instituto de Estudos do Mar Almirante Paulo Moreira hosted the first national workshop in Brazil of the GloFouling Partnerships as part of the XIIIth edition of the BIOINC conference. BIOINC is the flagship conference in Latin America on marine biofouling, benthic ecology and biotechnology. The conference was chaired by Dr. Ricardo Coutinho (national project coordinator for GloFouling in Brazil) and inaugurated by Admiral Marcos Sampaio Olsen, Director General of Nuclear and Technology Dev

Fiji and Tonga take the lead in the GloFouling Partnerships

June 14, 2019 5:21 pm Published by

Fiji and Tonga have spearheaded the 12 Lead Partnering Countries (LPCs) of the GloFouling Partnerships by hosting the first national workshops to review the programme of work and convey potential members of national task forces. In Tonga, Mr. Ringo Fa’oliu, CEO of the Ministry of Infrastructure, inaugurated the event and expressed his country’s hope that more activities will follow in the near future, particularly since Tonga has recently come out from its first Mandatory State Audit. Mrs. Kele