Te Mana O Te Moana

Before Christmas holidays, our educators continue to raise awareness

helene.duran — Wed, 20 Dec 2017 18:54:43 +0000

Before Christmas, our teams won’t stop!!

As part of the waste reduction week, our educators have been invited by the middle school of Arue to host a morning conference on the protection of the marine environment. They have offered to the 70 students from 13 to 15 years old how to get involved in the hei moana network and participate in a simple way to gather information on marine turtles from polynesia through the photo-identification technique ….

It is then the turn of the middle school of Pomare to receive our leaders for training sessions at the Hei Moana Sentinel project. As a result, 891 students were able to learn and understand how to protect marine species from French Polynesia…

Then our teachers went to high school to train teachers and volunteer students in the marine world. The teachers thus became ” referrals ” of the ” Hei moana ” project, and finally our tour ended with a training of teachers in the district of Papeete after the teachers of the middle school of Tevai i Uta…

Students are motivated to participate in Reef Check Junior training. From all very different backgrounds, this would allow to collect data on many areas of the island of Tahiti regarding the state of the reef health.

To date, there are more than 7 257 people (students, teachers and residents) who participated in the Hei moana training and who have learned and understood the need to conserve our marine environment, for the well-being of the future generations.

Our interventions in the Tuamotu Islands

helene.duran — Sat, 16 Dec 2017 01:14:58 +0000

After the Society Islands, the association’s team visited the island of Rangiroa in order to continue its awareness-raising activities. It is 5 new eco-sentinels that were formed during the public day organised on Saturday 18 November at the premises of the town hall of Avatoru.
With the support of the municipalities, public training helps to raise awareness among adults about the protection of the marine environment and to train focal points which will then take over the transmission of information and the collection of data on the Polynesian Marine world.
With regard to schools, 10 classes and 213 pupils were sensitized. Interventions took place over 4 days thanks to the involvement and active participation of teachers and principals who supported the project. Our Marine Biologist, Alice, has conducted intervention sessions from one to two hours to inform and involve children and teachers in the conservation of Marine Turtles, Marine mammals and coral reefs and to a better knowledge of them through collection of informations.
The following week, the Rangiroa College celebrated the feast of science during which Te mana o te moana was present. Once again this year, our association has focused its message on the need to preserve the marine environment and the life it houses thanks to numerous games, booklets, posters, etc. The technique of photo identification of sea turtles was therefore honored once again … a way to identify sea turtles that fascinates children and adults.
More than 300 students have been sensitized during this day.

Mid review of the “Hei moana” project

helene.duran — Wed, 15 Nov 2017 22:19:47 +0000

Since October 7th, our teams have been scouring the islands of Tahiti, Moorea, Raiatea, Bora Bora, Huahine and Rangiroa to broadcast the Hei moana’s program, a network that wishes to involve adults and children in participative sciences by giving them all the information’s needed to study reefs, marine mammals and marine turtles.
To preserve, it is necessary to understand marine life, its fauna and flora. This is why a one-day public training formation have been initiated on each island, bringing together a hundred particpants to date.
1500 children in 68 classes were made aware with schools actions on Moorea Tahiti Raiatea Huahine Bora Bora and Rangiroa.
The presence of our teams at the IPFC Congress and at the Science festival has been a relay for a very broad awareness of the school environment.

In Total, there are more than 4700 people, mostly children who have been sensitized to the protection of the Polynesian Marine world.

We would like to thank the municipalities of Moorea-Maiao, Tahiti, Huahine, Bora Bora, Uturoa, Taputapuatea and Rangiroa for their support, but also the directors and principals and teachers for their involvement.

Next public information meetings starting at 9 PM:
Saturday, November 18th at rangiroa
Saturday, November 25th at the city hall of taravao
Saturday, December 2nd at the city hall of papeete

Find all the news of the Hei moana’s network and download media on the following link http://www.temanaotemoana.org/fr/reseau-hei-moana/

To register for public meetings or for any questions, send an email: temanaotamoana@mail.pf
vaiarii.temana@gmail.com

Tel: 87 74 67 76 or 87 71 53 44

Hei moana project launching !

helene.duran — Tue, 03 Oct 2017 18:57:03 +0000

This week, we launch the project Hei moana, the sentinels of the ocean! It targets anyone interested in marine worldand who would like to get involved in its protection. Our first ever eco-sentinel training, free and open to all, will take place this Saturday, October 7th at the InterContinental Moorea Resort & Spa, from 9 am to 4 pm. During this training, we will provide all the information and tools needed to get involved in collecting data on coral reefs, sea turtles and marine mammals by simple and interesting methods.

Other eco-sentinel formations are being organized on Tahiti (starting on Arue, Saturday, October 14), Bora Bora, Huahine, Raiatea, Rangiroa and Fakarava: do not hesitate to contact us directly to be kept informed of dates and sign up. For more information on this project click here !

A BEST 2.0 project funded by the European Union.