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Pacific Conservation Database

Supporting the restoration of the Keiukl Coast and building the capacity of its surrounding communities to adapt to climate change

PIRT Member organisations

The Nature Conservancy (TNC)

Other partner organisations

Ngeremlengui State communities
Ngatpang State communities
Aimelik State communities
Ngardmau State communities

Countries of implementation

Palau

About

In Palau, TNC is working with communities along the Keiukl Coast to stop unsustainable sediment run-off, recover terrestrial food productivity and restore Ngermeduu Bay. Activities include developing precautionary development policy, taro patch revitalization to trap sediment, enhance food security and support Palauan efforts to drive inter-generational cultural connection to the land and sea, and development and implementation of an integrated watershed management plan which utilizes nature-based solutions (NbS) to address sources of sedimentation so that natural processes to retain sediment can be restored. TNC led a Dmakeiukl Women's Group Project Planning Workshop in May 2023 to learn about local threats and climate change impacts to natural resources and what they can do to address these issues. The women's groups developed project plans to implement NbS to climate change impacts prioritized in their community, including reef positive livelihood opportunities.

Framework Action Tracks

01 – Our people at the centre of conservation action, 05 – Nature-based Solutions (NbS) to sustain our social-ecological systems, 18 – Preventing terrestrial, freshwater and marine pollution (non-plastic)

Status

Ongoing

The Pacific Islands Roundtable for Nature Conservation (PIRT) is supported by the Pacific BioScapes Programme.

The Pacific BioScapes Programme is a European Union (EU) funded action, managed and implemented by the Secretariat of the Pacific Regional Environment Programme (SPREP).
The Programme contributes to the sustainable development of Pacific Small Island Developing States through the implementation of 30 focused activities taking place across a diversity of ecosystems in 11 countries (Cook Islands, Fiji, Kiribati, Republic of the Marshall Islands, Federated States of Micronesia, Palau, Papua New Guinea, Samoa, Solomon Islands, Tonga and Vanuatu) that will address critical issues concerning coastal and marine biodiversity, and ecosystem-based responses to climate change adaptation.
For more information, please visit: www.sprep.org/bioscapes

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© 2023 by Pacific Islands Roundtable for Nature Conservation (PIRT)

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