Ridge to Reef Marine Monitoring of Fanga'uta Lagoon, Tonga, October 2017

Ta'hirih Hokafonu1, Viliami Hakaumotu2, Bradley Myer3, David Bloom4, Ainsof So'o5

1 Department of Environment, , Nuku Alofa, Tonga; 2 Department of Environment, Nuku Alofa, Tonga; 3 Seretariat of the Pacific Regional Environment Programme, PO Box 240, Apia, Samoa; 4 VertNet, ; 5 SPREP, , Samoa

Corresponding author(s): Ta'hirih Hokafonu, Viliami Hakaumotu (viliamihakau@gmail.com), Bradley Myer (bradleym.ext@sprep.org)

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Resource Citation

Hokafonu T (2018): Ridge to Reef Marine Monitoring of Fanga'uta Lagoon, Tonga, October 2017. v1.1. Department of Environment, Government of Tonga. Dataset/Occurrence. https://ipt.sprep.org/resource?r=r2r_oct2017_fangauta_marinemonitoring&v=1.1

Abstract

This dataset is an outcome of a project titled:  “Integrated Environmental Management of the Fanga’uta Lagoon Catchment”

Project Overview
This  Global Environment Fund (GEF) project  seeks  to  conserve  the  ecosystem  services  of  the  Fanga’uta  Lagoon  Catchment  on  the Tongatapu  Island  of  the  Kingdom  of Tonga  in  the  South  Pacific  through  an  integrated  land,  water  and  coastal management  approach  thereby  protecting  livelihoods  and  food  production  and  enhancing  climate  resilience.  
The  project  is  part  of  the  Program  on  “Pacific  Islands  Ridge-to-Reef  National  Priorities  –  Integrated  Water, Land,  Forest  and  Coastal  Management  to  Preserve  Biodiversity,  Ecosystem  Services,  Store  carbon,  Improve Climate  Resilience  and  Sustain  Livelihoods”  under  GEF  support,  maintaining  and  enhancing  the  ecosystem goods and services of Tonga’s main lagoon catchment and marine reserve areas through integrated approaches to  land,  water,  forest,  biodiversity  and  coastal  resource  management  that  contribute  to  poverty  reduction, sustainable   livelihoods   and   climate   resilience.       It   also   makes   a   stronger   linkage   between   sustainable development of freshwater catchment and coastal areas and promotes the implementation of holistic, integrated management of natural resources at the catchment level. 
The project objective is to conserve the ecosystem services of the Fanga’uta Lagoon through an integrated land, water  and  coastal  management  approach  thereby  protecting  livelihoods  and  food  production  and  enhancing climate resilience.  This will be achieved through interventions at two interconnected levels: national and site level.  Targeting to achieve an integrated management and conservation of the lagoon ecosystem services, the project devised and implemented creative ways to address the  critical  gaps  in  environmental  and  ecosystem  services  conservation  in  the  Fanga’uta  Lagoon  catchment through  the  establishment  of  an  effective  governance  system  and  sustainable  management  of  the  lagoon ecosystems;  implement  integrated  environmental  management  approaches  for  improving conditions of critical habitats, productivity, water quality and fisheries in the lagoon catchment; and  strengthen  knowledge  and  awareness  of  the  Fanga’uta  Lagoon  ecosystem  functions  and  associated  socio-economic   benefits   within   the   national   stakeholders   and   local   communities.  Project interventions were structured according to these three interconnected components and have been designed and developed through a participatory process and subsequent consultations with the Tongan Government and other stakeholders.

Keywords: Occurrence, Observation

Project details

Project title: Regional and National Alien and Invasive Species Data and Information Mobilization and Capacity Building in the Pacific
Personnel: Ta'hirih Hokafonu
Funding: Publication of this dataset was funded by the European Union

Data published through GBIF: https://ipt.sprep.org/resource?r=r2r_oct2017_fangauta_marinemonitoring

Spatial coverage

General spatial coverage: Fanga'uta Lagoon, Tongatapu Island, Tonga
Coordinates: 21°12'7.2''S and 21°7'51.6''S Latitude; 175°14'6''W and 175°6'28.8''W Longitude 

Methods

Method step description: Grab methodology for sea grass cover and fish net methodology for fish abundance.  Please contact the Resource Creators directly for more details
Study extent description: Fanga'uta Lagoon
Sampling description: Grab methodology for sea grass cover and fish net methodology for fish abundance 

Datasets

Dataset description
Object name: Darwin Core Archive Ridge to Reef Marine Monitoring of Fanga'uta Lagoon, Tonga, October 2017
Character encoding: UTF-8
Format name: Darwin Core Archive format
Format version: 1.0
Distribution: https://ipt.sprep.org/archive.do?r=r2r_oct2017_fangauta_marinemonitoring
Publication date of data: 2018-11-27
Language: English
Licences of use: Public Domain (CC0 1.0)

Metadata language: English
Date of metadata creation: 2018-11-27
Hierarchy level: Dataset