Marine Research Centre, together with Bay of Bengal Large Marine Ecosystem Project held a Working Group Meeting on Sharks from 5-7th July 2011. The participating countries have endorsed the International Plan of Action on Sharks (IPOA-Sharks) and all the countries are committed to have a National Plan of Action on Sharks (NPOA-Sharks). Learn more
A National Coral Reef Monitoring Programme has been in place at MRC for sometime. However, the programme was slowed down due to lack of adequate and trained staff. Recent austerity measures that has been in place in not helping to re-start the coral reef monitoing programem at the Marine Research Centre Learn more
A project under the title “Developing and Piloting a Web-Enabled Coral Reef Monitoring Framework for Evidence-Based Management of Coral Reef Ecosystem” is being formulated with the support from Climate Change Trust Fund / World Bank. The project is endorsed by the Climate Change Advisory Council and the National Planning Council. The Learn more
The coral reef systems of the Republic of Maldives are the eighth largest in the World and cover an area of approximately 4513 km2. Due to the very low total area of land, coral reefs are the dominant ecosystem found in this chain of atoll islands. View
Maldives Environment Management Project (MEMP), supported by the World Bank / IDA, is a five year project started in 2008. The main objective of the project is to build environmental capacity in the Maldives. Specifically, View
In 1996 MRC started the first pearl culture activity as Pearl Culture Pilot Project with financial assistance from the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP). When this five year project ended MRC and UNDP started in 2003 a follow-up five year project – Pearl Culture Demonstration, Extension and Marketing Project (PCDEMP), which will last until December 2008. View