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.

The end of the second awareness tour in the Australes

helene.duran — Sat, 09 Dec 2017 01:18:26 +0000

The second school awareness tour in the Australes is ending. Thanks to the support of Pew Polynesia and our animators, the various maritime management plans and their importance are now known to the school. Thus, all of them are aware of the positive impact those plans might have been achieved, for example, a ” Rahul Tamari ” or an application for the” AME ” (the marine education area), and now understand the terms of PGEM, AMP , AMG, ZPR, etc.
Our animator Magali continued her tour to Raivavae to finish it off at Tubuai. After selecting areas for launching, children and teachers benefited from an information session followed by a session on site. As in Rurutu and Rimatara, a session was dedicated in class, followed by an introduction to the Reef Check method through the counting of certain species of fish (e.g. Butterfly Fish, convict fish, etc.). Invertebrates (e.g. sea urchins, hava, clams) and types of Coral (massIve etc.)
A total of 290 pupils have been sensitized to the protection of the marine environment during this tour in the Australes.
Magali took advantage of his stay in Tubuai to participate in the science festival organized by The Association Proscience. She has informed more than 300 students through explanations, including the recognition of Marine Turtles with the scales of their head. Thus, the hei moana project has been honoured with participatory sciences.
Magali also participated in the “book fair” in Raivavae where the entire elementary school was sensitized on the protection of the marine environment.
A great tour which has enabled nearly 600 chuldren to be introduced to the participatory sciences and the various methods they can implement for the protection of French Polynesia.

Awareness tour in the Australes, with Pew Polynesia support

helene.duran — Fri, 01 Dec 2017 18:31:47 +0000

Since last week, the school awareness tour in the Australes has continued in Tubuai and in Rimatara. Indeed, thanks to the support of Pew Polynesia, our animators travel the southern islands to explain to school the different marine environment management plans (PGEM, AMP, ZPR, Rahui, etc.) and the benefit of setting up collective initiatives like a ” Rahui Tamari ” or a request for the label” AME ” (Marine educational area).
For two weeks, students from the islands of Rimatara and Rurutu received Magali in one morning for an information session followed by a session on site where children accompanied by their teachers were able to choose a marine area for the study of its environment. It is, among other things, the Reef Check method that they discovered through the counting of certain species of fish (e.g. Butterfly Fish etc), invertebrates (e.g.: Sea Urchins, hava ‘ e, clams) and types Corals (massive etc) while learning to recognize episodes of coral bleaching.
In Total, more than 100 pupils have been sensitized to the protection of the marine environment.

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

Students training regarding sea turtles status in Polynesian culture

helene.duran — Fri, 27 Oct 2017 00:15:55 +0000

Last week we went to train 12 students of the University of French Polynesia (UPF) in Master 2 Sciences of the Universe, Environment, Ecology, specialty ” Insular Oceanian Environment” (M2EIO). As part of the teaching unit “conservation biology & invasions in the islands”, the training meant the emblematic marine species of French Polynesia, but the focus was on the place occupied by the marine turtle in terms of Polynesian traditions and culture. Students also had a vision of the status of sea turtles around the world.

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.

Launching of the first training sessions from Reef Check French Polynesia…

helene.duran — Wed, 30 Mar 2016 22:35:41 +0000

Thanks to the Air Tahiti Nui airline company, Mr Harold Cambert, Reef Check Course Director from the the Indo Pacific area came over to Moorea from March 15th to the 22nd, to particpate at Te mana o te moana’s side to trainings on the island of Moorea and Tahiti.

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.

Relaunch of Reef Check Polynesia…

helene.duran — Tue, 26 May 2015 23:13:06 +0000

Thanks to Reef Check International, te mana o te moana, member of Reef Check since more than 6 years, is now coordonnating the French Polynesian network.

Reef Check International is an International organisation created in 1996 by the Dr. Gregor Hodgson. This program for monitoring coral reefs brings together scientists and volunteers in more than 90 countries (1,700 reefs). The aim of this network is simple: involve residents in monitoring reefs and thus help to better protect them.

Thanks to the Air Tahiti Nui airline company, the Dr Gregor Hodgson acompanied by Harold Cambert (Reef Check Course Director from the the Indo Pacific area) came over to Moorea from May 25th to the 29th to deliver trainings.

At least, a team of 6 persons composed by members of te mana, the CRIOBE entity and the Municipality of Moorea-Maiao was trained as “Reef Check Ecotrainers”. Participants are volunteers and will be able to provide soon training sessions for those who are interested in.

Naturalist Guides

helene.duran — Mon, 01 Sep 2014 22:12:58 +0000

Since July 2014, Te mana o te moana is engaged in the Substainable development on The Brando’s hotel side thanks to a team of naturalist guides specially trained. Their mission consists to make the guests discover the biodiversity of Tetiaroa, raising awarness and tending them to involve in the research and conservation programs of the foundation.