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Strengthening protected area management in the Kingdom of Tonga

For achieving the objectives:
goal 13
obiettivo 14
Goals: 13. Climate action, 14. Life below water
Recipient country: Tonga
Sector: Environmental research

Period: 2019-2021

Status: in progress

Description

Funded by the Italian Ministry of the Environment, Land and Sea, the project is aimed at encouraging the management of coastal areas by monitoring and protecting the most valuable coastal habitats (coral reefs, mangrove forests and marine phanerogams prairies) from the impacts of climate change and anthropic pressures.

ENEA Activities:

  • Satellite imagery interpretation for the digital mapping of the marine coastal habitat of Tonga
  • Identification of the marine coastal habitats of coral reefs particularly important and vulnerable
  • Monitoring of the habitat’s change
  • Design and setting of the protection areas provided for in the project.

References

Territorial and Production Systems Sustainability Department

Contacts

Published: 27/04/2020
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