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This site presents the Global Environment Facility's Guinea Current Large Marine Ecosystem Project :

" Combating Living Resource Depletion and Coastal Area Degradation in the

Guinea Current Large Marine Ecosystem Through Ecosystem-Based Regional Actions"

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Second Ministerial Meeting

Environment ministers in Guinea Current area agree on a permanent body to manage ecosystem

By Olu Sarr

ACCRA 2 July – Environment Ministers of 16 West and Central African countries agreed Friday to the creation of the Guinea Current Commission and accepted Ghana’s offer to host the new regional body.

This far-reaching decision by the Committee of Ministers of the Environment, who met in the Ghanaian capital Accra, is designed to streamline and bolster the management of the region’s Large Marine Ecosystem, an endangered body of water and 5,560 kilometres of coastline stretching from Guinea-Bissau to the northern Angolan Province of Cabinda.

The Committee of Environment Ministers agree on 2 July to set
Guinea Current Commision

GCLME/FAO Fish Trawl 2010

African scientists to survey South Gulf of Guinea waters in science-based effort to ensure sustainable management of Guinea current fisheries

By Olu Sarr

PORT-GENTIL, Gabon 18 June - Norwegian survey ship Dr. Fridt Jof Nansen has set sail from Port-Gentil, Gabon, with 13 African scientists who will learn to use acoustic sounding methods in tracking fish shoals in the West African seaboard of the Atlantic Ocean.

“I have to teach the scientists how to interpret acoustic data and use acoustic methods,” Sigbjorn Mehl, the scientists’ cruise leader, said Friday just before the launch ceremony of the training expedition.

Norwegian survey ship Dr. Fridt Jof Nansen

Value of maintaining healthy costal environment discussed

Value of maintaining healthy costal environment discussed

By Olu Sarr

ACCRA 15 July - Experts from the Guinea Current countries of west and central Africa began a two-day meeting Wednesday to discuss harmonized methods to measure the economic value of maintaining a healthy marine and coastal ecosystem along their coast stretching from Guinea-Bissau to Angola on the Atlantic.

Mid-term review of National Action Plans ends

Mid-term review of National Action Plans ends; countries make significant progress

By Olu Sarr

ACCRA 13 July - Countries participating in the Guinea Current Large Marine Ecosystem (GCLME) project have made significant progress in developing their National Action Plans, the consultant guiding the process said Tuesday.

MID-Term Review of NAP

Mid-term review of National Action Plans for ecosystem preservation begins By Olu Sarr ACCRA 12 July - Environmentalists from 16 west and central African nations began Monday a two-day review of their progress in developing National Action Plans vital for the safeguarding and sustainable management of their marine ecosystems that are blighted by pollution and the depletion of resources.
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Welcome to IGCC!

Environment ministers in Guinea Current area agree on a permanent body to manage ecosystem

By Olu Sarr

ACCRA 2 July – Environment Ministers of 16 West and Central African countries agreed Friday to the creation of the Guinea Current Commission and accepted Ghana’s offer to host the new regional body.

The Committee of Environment Ministers agree on 2 July to set Guinea Current Commision

The Committee of Environment Ministers agree on 2 July to set

Guinea Current Commision

African scientists to survey South Gulf of Guinea waters in science-based effort to ensure sustainable management of Guinea current fisheries

By Olu Sarr

PORT-GENTIL, Gabon 18 June - Norwegian survey ship Dr. Fridt Jof Nansen has set sail from Port-Gentil, Gabon, with 13 African scientists who will learn to use acoustic sounding methods in tracking fish shoals in the West African seaboard of the Atlantic Ocean.

“I have to teach the scientists how to interpret acoustic data and use acoustic methods,” Sigbjorn Mehl, the scientists’ cruise leader, said Friday just before the launch ceremony of the training expedition.

Norwegian survey ship Dr. Fridt Jof Nansen

Value of maintaining healthy costal environment discussed

By Olu Sarr

Mid-term review of National Action Plans ends; countries make significant progress

By Olu Sarr

ACCRA 13 July - Countries participating in the Guinea Current Large Marine Ecosystem (GCLME) project have made significant progress in developing their National Action Plans, the consultant guiding the process said Tuesday.

Mid-term review of National Action Plans for ecosystem preservation begins

By Olu Sarr

The Committee of Environment Ministers agree on 2 July to set
Guinea Current Commision