Mozambique
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Sandwatch activities started in: 2012
Coordination of Sandwatch in Mozambique:
The Centre for Coastal and Marine Environmental Research in Pemba, northern Mozambique expressed interest in Sandwatch in 2012.
Status of Sandwatch in Mozambique: Active
Activities and Highlights: Updates in progress
5 anos 'Fortalecendo a Coexistencia sustentável das
comunidades e a Natureza’
(5 years 'Strengthening the Sustainable Coexistence of Communities and Nature')
Sandwatch activities on Ibo Island, Mozambique
Sandwatchers on Ibo Island, Mozambique conduct a HUGE beach clean-up and recycling program in a true school and community effort!
Sandwatchers on Ibo Island, Mozambique conduct a HUGE beach clean-up and recycling program in a true school and community effort!
Students at Ibo Island collecting trash from the beach
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Ibo Island Sandwatchers take part in online Beach Records training
Earlier this year, an environmental conservation group on Ibo Island, Mozambique, Associação do Sistema de Monitoria Orientada para Gestão – ASMOG (Association for the Management of Marine Resources), expressed interest to get involved in Sandwatch. Ibo island, Mozambique is located in the Quirimbas National Park a UNESCO World Biosphere Reserve and is the oldest and the most important settlement area in the region, surrounded by critical and important marine and coast habitats and ecosystems. So far two online training sessions in Sandwatch and the Beach Records platform have been conducted (8th and 12th May 2023).Students at Ibo Island collecting plastic trash from the beach Please contact the Sandwatch Foundation if you would like to hear more about the online Beach Records platform and/or schedule an online introduction or training session. |
April 2023: School beach clean-up, art and recycling projects and more!
Associação do Sistema de Monitoria Orientada para Gestão (ASMOG)
(The Management Oriented Monitoring System Association)
Ibo island, Mozambique is located in the Quirimbas National Park (UNESCO World Biosphere Reserve, map below), is the oldest and the most important settlement area in the region, surrounded by critical and important marine and coast habitats and ecosystems.
The Ibo island community areas are working together to preserve their unique traditional, cultural and natural heritage.
Associação do Sistema de Monitoria Orientada para Gestão (ASMOG)
(The Management Oriented Monitoring System Association)
Ibo island, Mozambique is located in the Quirimbas National Park (UNESCO World Biosphere Reserve, map below), is the oldest and the most important settlement area in the region, surrounded by critical and important marine and coast habitats and ecosystems.
The Ibo island community areas are working together to preserve their unique traditional, cultural and natural heritage.
ASMOG, is a local non-governmental organization established by local community members mostly youth that has engaged local communities to adopt best practices to preserve critical habits, sustainable use of natural resources and waste management against pollution especially marine plastic debris on our shores.
During the last 3 months ASMOG has engaged local education authorities, government and communities for the establishment of environment clubs at local schools. Now we have a total of 60 students and teachers involved in a variety of sensitization activities, hands on practical events for an awareness to learn and adopt practices to preserve the local environment and heritage areas.
The students have participated in cleanup campaigns, recycling workshops and dissemination of experience gained to other kids and communities’ members. Some of the items collected from the clean up activities are used to produce “ecobricks” using simple techniques for the confinement of plastic waste that will be used to introduce a new build method for a model house to be constructed on Ibo island.
Other project we have conducted are...
1. An artistic mural wall built by ASMOG, using recycled material collected during the cleaning up activities with the involvement of students from the Sandwatch environmental club at Cumuamba Market Old School
2. Production of various species of plant seedlings with students from environmental clubs.
3. Community participation in numerous environmental activities
4. Community participation in beach and coastal cleaning campaigns and composting.
5. Training and induction of students from environmental clubs into the community compost bin project.
6. Exhibition of artistic paintings at Eduardo Chivambo Mondlane Primary School.
By Vasco Antonio Long Puan & Eugidio Gobo
- click here to read our full report with photos!
Editors note: The Sandwatchers of the ASMOG organization have just started to utilize The Sandwatch Foundation's new released online Beach Records Archives, to regularly record and note data and other details about the relative size and health of their coastal environment over time.
During the last 3 months ASMOG has engaged local education authorities, government and communities for the establishment of environment clubs at local schools. Now we have a total of 60 students and teachers involved in a variety of sensitization activities, hands on practical events for an awareness to learn and adopt practices to preserve the local environment and heritage areas.
The students have participated in cleanup campaigns, recycling workshops and dissemination of experience gained to other kids and communities’ members. Some of the items collected from the clean up activities are used to produce “ecobricks” using simple techniques for the confinement of plastic waste that will be used to introduce a new build method for a model house to be constructed on Ibo island.
Other project we have conducted are...
1. An artistic mural wall built by ASMOG, using recycled material collected during the cleaning up activities with the involvement of students from the Sandwatch environmental club at Cumuamba Market Old School
2. Production of various species of plant seedlings with students from environmental clubs.
3. Community participation in numerous environmental activities
4. Community participation in beach and coastal cleaning campaigns and composting.
5. Training and induction of students from environmental clubs into the community compost bin project.
6. Exhibition of artistic paintings at Eduardo Chivambo Mondlane Primary School.
By Vasco Antonio Long Puan & Eugidio Gobo
- click here to read our full report with photos!
Editors note: The Sandwatchers of the ASMOG organization have just started to utilize The Sandwatch Foundation's new released online Beach Records Archives, to regularly record and note data and other details about the relative size and health of their coastal environment over time.
Ibo Island Sandwatchers clean up their beach!
Students turn trash into art!
Note the masks and the school's wall mural created using recycled plastics
Note the masks and the school's wall mural created using recycled plastics
The community starts a plastics recycling program
Men and women from the community worked together to separate all the plastics recovered from their beach, sort them, cut them down to uniform sizes and colours. Then the plastics were bagged, tagged and weighed for sale to a recycling plant for cash.
Men and women from the community worked together to separate all the plastics recovered from their beach, sort them, cut them down to uniform sizes and colours. Then the plastics were bagged, tagged and weighed for sale to a recycling plant for cash.
Marine Turtles return to the cleaned beach to nest!
