Here an overwiew of their actions.

Thanks a lot to Moorea Coral Gardeners and thanks also to all those who get themselves involved in restoration of marine or terrestrial habitats that are houses of our so rich but unfortunately increasingly threatened biodiversity !

<< Click here to discover the conference on sea turtles in French Polynesia.

]]> https://www.temanaotemoana.org/en/1rst-eco-ecole-assizes-held-on-tahiti/ Sat, 23 Apr 2016 23:17:22 +0000 http://www.temanaotemoana.org/?p=11173 The Eco-Ecole (Eco-school) program is an international program launched after the Earth Summit in Rio in 1992. It is supported by the Danish Foundation for Environmental Education (FEE) since 1994. In France, the first initiatives date back to 2005; in French Polynesia, they were born in 2010. In 2016, there’s 38 schools registered in the program. It’s relayed in French Polynesia by Florence Vidal from Fedescol, supported by the foundation Colibris and in partnership with the local Government. The objective of this meeting is to first create a dynamic, strengthening the network of eco-school referents and the second is to get more knowledge about the program and to make people want to see new initiatives flourish. Invited to hold a workshop on the marine biodiversity, our two educators went at the DGEE on Tahiti (General Direction for the Education and Teachings) to present all the various pedagogic tools created by the foundation and oriented on the French Polynesian marine environment. For souvenir, our foundation is participating to the Eco-Ecole program with the Collège of Paopao from Moorea since the beginning of their certification, 3 years ago. Congratulations to all the schools that initiate the Eco-Ecole project in their establishment and to the organisation of this event (Mme Vidal, Colibris Tahiti, etc) that gathered more than 100 teachers, directors and education advisors for Tahiti and Moorea.

At least, 2 sessions were delivered and 20 inhabitants of the both islands were  trained as “Reef Check Ecodivers”. They are now ready for the monitoring of reefs! They will detect as scientists new disturbance and will get a better knowledge of the coral reefs’ health of their island. The datas collected every year will help scientists to get information from the far away islands where no scientific monitoring is done.
Thanks to Air Tahiti Nui, Ifrecor Polynésie and Reef Check France that helped us to set up the Reef Check Program and trained volunteers during the all year long (we will organise a session in the far away islands from French Polynesia soon). We also would like to thank the city hall of Punaauia and Martine from Pa’e Pa’e no te ora foundation that permit us to deliver the training sessions on Tahiti and also the Tamari’i Pointe des Pêcheurs foundation that participated to the event.

Congratulations to the freshly trained Ecodivers :

From Moorea : Jérôme, Hoani, Arthur, Clément, Prisca, Sylvie, Anthony, Magali, Anais et Yann. And from Tahiti : Marc, Faimano, Paul, Hélène, Reynald, Hereiti, David, Thierry et Noëlle, and Martine.

From Raivavae to Moorea, in going through Rimatara and Rurutu, our team has delivered specific educational programs on the needs to set up marine conservation plans such as Rahui tamarii or marine areas… At each time they went into a school, a specimen of the toolkit was given to impulse teachers to use it year by year.

<< Click here to read more about the project – Click here to discover the toolkit (only in French)

During the forenoon, at the Paul Gaughin High School, 350 students from 15 to 17 years old, attended the simultaneous programs from 6 lecturers, experts in their own sector:

Benjamin de Clume (beekeeper), Jean Kape (Best – Tamariki Te-Puka_Maruia – Te Reo o te Tuamotu), Elodie Martinez (IRD Institute for Research and Development), Gilles Tehau Parzy (Eden Park Bio Strategies), Antoine Poteau (IRD), Taivini Teai (University of French Polynesia).

We thank Mr Eric Besse, Principal of the College who welcomed our team and help to make from this event a real fair for the sciences…

From the left to the right : Mr Eric Besse (Principal of the Paul Gauguin Lycée) – Antoine Poteau (IRD), Magali Soria (te mana o te moana), Benjamin de Clume (beekeper), Vie Stabile (te mana o te moana), Taivini Teia (UPF), Elodie Martinez (IRD), Marc Taquet (IRD) and Elena Gorchakova (te mana o te moana).

The evening was focused on the Conference Cycle, which was held at “Le Petit Théâtre de la Maison de la Culture” where more than 50 people came to the scientific lectures and where local experts, from Earth to Ocean, passing by the Sky, explained the favours given by the Polynesian nature.

The precious lecturers:

Dr. Serges PLANES, Research Manager at the CNRS (The French National Centre for Scientific Research) and Head Manager of the Centre for Island Research and Environment Observatory (CRIOBE), Dr. Marc TAQUET, Head Manager of the French Research Institute for the Development – IRD, Dr Pierre SASAL, Researcher at the CRIOBE Moorea – Centre for Island Research and Environment Observatory, Jean-Michel BORIE, FOGER Department’s Head – Rural Development Services,  Jean-Yves MEYER botanist from the Delegation for the Research and the Technology in French Polynesia, Philippe RAUST, President of the Ornithological Society of French Polynesia Manu, Dr. Hervé BOSSIN, Medical Entomologist in the Louis Mallardé Institute (ILM) in French Polynesia, Jean KAPE, President of the association “Tamariki Te-Puka-Maruia”, of “Te Reo o te Tuamotu” and coordinator of the BEST project.

This 24th edition of the Science Festival in French Polynesia is coordinated by the association Te Mana o Te Moana which was appointed by the Country and the High Commission of the French Republic in French Polynesia.

From October 7th to the 10th, many events are organized as part of the celebration of the Science Fair in French Polynesia.

For this 24th edition of the Science Fair, we co-organized with the country of French Polynesia and the High Commission from the French Polynesia, this new edition on the theme :  “Ecosystem services in French Polynesia: what is nature?“

Through this, this Science Fair‘s goals are to highlight the importance of the nature for our human life and the benefits of the French Polynesian ecosytemes for maintaining economic activity and well-being.

From 7 to 10 October 2015, different events are organized for the Consumer and school in French Polynesia: cycle of conferences, exhibitions pictures – entertainment in the Colleges (3rd) and High Schools, day “open house” by Research centers and giant projection for fencing events.

<< Click here to read the Press Release FDS_30_09 15 – only French

Events for the Public :

Wednesday 07th at 5.00 pm at the Petit Théâtre from the Maison de la Culture – only French

Saturday 10th at 5.00pm : Showing of Sammy 2  in the Gardens of Paofai. Bring the peue… Delivering of Booklet on the ecosystemic services in French Polynesia“.

]]> https://www.temanaotemoana.org/en/10279/ Mon, 08 Jun 2015 23:54:26 +0000 http://www.temanaotemoana.org/?p=10279 In the afternoon of June 8th, Matthieu Petit has joined the team of PEW Charitable Trusts  at the “Maison de la Culture” in Tahiti to assist to the restitution of more than 340 pages, on the Marine Environment of the Austral Islands. This book was realised in one year and edited by the CRIOBE-IRCP (Insular Research Center and Observatory for the Environment – Coral reefs Institute). More than 30 experts have taken part of this work including our President Dr Cécile Gaspar and our marine biologist Matthieu Petit. To download the publication: click here

Then, he presented the project “Protect our oceans” conducted by the foundation during the 214-2015 school year thanks to the support of the PEW Charitable Trusts. This project gathered more than 25 classerooms from the Austral Islands, and 9 classerooms from Tahiti and Moorea (11 years old). At least, this project raised awareness of more than 700 children to the conservation of the oceans… This evening was also an opportunity to introduce the ” Protect of the oceans” toolkit that will be edited in 100 specimens and distibuted for free to all the schools of the project at the end of the month.

The end of the evening was dedicated to the beautiful documentary realised in the Austral Islands by National Geographic with the PEW  Charitable Trusts Foundation « Rapa : the spirit of the rahui ». An evening that raised awareness of more than 150 persons –

Click here to read the article from Tahiti Infos (only French).

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<< Click here to discover the cartoon in English version (coming soon)