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Pilot project for Sustainable Coastal management in Sierra Leone

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  • Aquaculture, fisheries and coastal agriculture
  • Coastal wetland conservation

Sierra Leone’s coastal and marine biodiversity faces many threats ranging from habitat destruction, climate change (coastal erosion, flooding and droughts), hunting, collection of sea turtle eggs, to land use change as a result of agriculture and settlement and fish stock overexploitation. However, there are initiatives already addressing some of these issues for some time.

Pilot project for Sustainable Coastal management in Sierra Leone