Presentation
Malpelo and other Marine Ecosystems Foundation is a non-governmental and non profit organization, established since 1999, on the Colombian republic law to work jointly and to support to the Government in conservation subjects, preservation, education and investigation of the marine Colombian environment, specially in the Fauna and Flora Sanctuary of Malpelo (FFS).
Between the high-priority actions that the Foundation carries out are:
- Support the National Park Unit in the management and conservation of Malpelo FFS and other marine protected areas.
- Coordinate economic, logistical and human recourses in order to increase the management, control and protection of the area.
- Coordinate, support and lead scientific research in the area in order to have sufficient information for management decisions.
- Coordinate the conservation of the ecosystems present in Malpelo with the main stakeholders, such as the fishing sector, tourist operators, environmental authorities and NGOs as well as scientific institutions.
- Disclose research result to the scientist environment and the value of the marine’s resources to general public.
- Inter-institutional coordination.
Mission
Promoting the protection and the care of Colombia marine and coastal areas, being fomented on the sustainable use of the natural resources. Supporting the National Government the institutionalisation is fortified in the control and the monitoring, the legislation, the scientific research, the education and the conservation, within a frame of cooperation with multiple actors, with the purpose of reaching an integral and balanced conservation.
Vision
Projected like the organization leader in conservation and investigation of marine ecosystems supporting the work of the Colombian National Government. Action accompanied by an ample participation of the civil society and the private companies, acting with great social responsibility, management that will bring to the sustainability of the marine resources.
Why we need to protect the Sanctuary?
The Malpelo Fauna and Flora Sanctuary protect an important marine and terrestrial area for the conservation of its biodiversity. This status of protection allow Malpelo’s inhabitants to have an area where to complete their life cycles or at least part of them without human pressures. Our goal is to give protection to particularly vulnerable species such as sharks.
Santuaire de Faune et Flore Malpelo - O. Gallet
For example, the shark populations worldwide have diminished 80% of their original stocks. Sharks are key species in this area since the relations between them and the organisms that reproduce in Malpelo as well as the commercial important species are very strong. At first sight the connection between the commercial species and the sharks are not very clear. With the following graph we wish to illustrate this intricate relation.
PROTECTING THE FAUNA AND FLORA SANCTUARY OF MALPELO IS PROTECTING THE FUTURE OF FISHING
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