Research Centre for Resources and Rural development

The designed project contribute to protect biodiversity against overfishing and destructive fishing as well as other threats by following reasons: -Enhance awareness and capacity of local fishers and their family members through action research, training, and awareness raising, mobile school, will LEAD to change their behaviors of destructive fishing. -Building capacity for those people by grouping them working together and working with government, with strong emphasis on traditional knowledge to protect the coral reef nearby, will LEAD to good governance of resources and protect the coral reef. -Promotion of selected fishing gears, will LEAD to reduce overfishing and destructive fishing practices -Provide alternative livelihood to those people by promotion of eco-tourism and hand-made products, based on nature based and traditional added value which related to coastal resources, will secure the income of the fishers, and therefore LEAD to less-pressure to the coastal habitats // 20ha coral reef and 80 ha of fishing ground