MONACO EXPLORATION MISSION IN THE INDIAN OCEAN with S A AGULHAS II

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MONACO EXPLORATIONS MISSION IN THE INDIAN OCEAN
The Monaco Explorations mission in the western Indian Ocean, scheduled for October and November 2022, is part of the commitment of the Principality and its Sovereign to safeguard and sustainably manage the Ocean. This is the first element of the “Monaco Explorations” project, approved in June 2021 as part of the United Nations Decade of Ocean Science for Sustainable Development 2021-2030. Aboard the S.A. AGULHAS II, 8 research projects were implemented, 20 nationalities were represented, and 170 people were on board in total. Scientists, artists, divers and documentarians, communicators, and mediators have combined their skills to carry out a multidisciplinary study on the route Mauritius, Reunion, Aldabra and Seychelles, Saya de Malha, St-Brandon and again Mauritius. The focal point of the study, the submerged atoll of Saya de Malha, a vast underwater seagrass bed of 40,000 km² qualified as an "invisible island", is the subject of numerous challenges in terms of biodiversity and sustainable management of natural resources.

https://www.oetp-monaco.com/index.php?r ... cle_id=155 Info received from Jean-Louise Araignon.
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