Project overview

CI worked with the MFMR CBRM division to strengthen community-based conservation and management of leatherback turtles in a 30-km coastline in southeastern Guadalcanal. The project aims to improve site-based conservation of leatherback turtles, including expanding the existing community network for leatherback turtle conservation areas.

Project details

Under MFMR’s leadership, the goal of this proposed project was to develop and implement a systematic approach to community-based conservation of leatherback turtles in the Solomon Islands focusing specifically on leatherback turtles in Mbota in Guadalcanal.

Other partner organisations

  • Solomon Islands Government

Framework action tracks

  • 01 – Our people at the centre of conservation action
  • 02 – Behaviour change for nature conservation through heritage and cultural expressions
  • 08 – Marine ecological integrity
  • 11 – Reducing threats to threatened and migratory marine species
  • 13 – Ending unsustainable fishing