{"id":3030,"date":"2019-12-09T17:51:00","date_gmt":"2019-12-10T01:51:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/coral.org\/news\/raising-chickens-and-bees-to-save-coral-reefs-2\/"},"modified":"2021-09-30T09:33:03","modified_gmt":"2021-09-30T16:33:03","slug":"raising-chickens-and-bees-to-save-coral-reefs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/coral.org\/en\/blog\/raising-chickens-and-bees-to-save-coral-reefs\/","title":{"rendered":"Raising Chickens and Bees to Save Coral Reefs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Coral reefs provide an important source of food and income for coastal and island communities around the world. But more than 55 percent of reefs are threatened by overfishing globally.<\/p>\n<p>Overfishing not only disrupts the delicate ecology of coral reefs, it also negatively impacts the local communities that depend on them. If fishers are unable to catch enough fish, they may struggle to make a living or feed their families.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1286\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1286\" style=\"width: 660px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-1286 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/coral.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/Micos-Lagoon-Fisherman-1-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"A fisherman in Micos Lagoon\" width=\"660\" height=\"320\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1286\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Small-scale fisher in Micos Lagoon, Honduras.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>That&#8217;s where bees and chickens come in.<\/p>\n<p>Entrepreneurial \u201cincome diversification\u201d projects, like raising egg-laying chickens or keeping honeybees, offer new ways for fishers and their families to earn money. When communities have the skills and resources to generate income in new ways, they don\u2019t need to overfish. The result is a win-win solution, in which people are no longer over-reliant on a single resource, while depleted fish stocks and coral reef ecosystems get the chance to recover and thrive.<\/p>\n<p>As part of our <a href=\"https:\/\/coral.org\/what-we-do\/healthy-fisheries-for-reefs\/\">Healthy Fisheries for Reefs<\/a> initiative, CORAL collaborates with local communities to develop tailored, locally appropriate income diversification projects. Some such examples include our egg-laying chicken project in coastal Honduras and our beekeeping project in Waivunia, Fiji. We help build the capacity of local people to learn skills like how to run an artisan shop or become a tour guide operator &#8212; always taking into consideration communities\u2019 preferences and interests and the availability of materials for start-up and maintenance.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1278\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1278\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-1278 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/coral.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/beekeepers-looking-cool.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1278\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Newly-trained beekeepers suit up in Waivunia, Fiji.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>One of our greatest success stories comes from the Micos Lagoon on the north coast of Honduras. With its natural beauty and high biodiversity, the lagoon is the ecological, social, and economic heart of Blanca Jeannette Kawas National Park. It serves as a nursery habitat where juvenile reef fish spend their lives before populating Tela Bay\u2019s coral reefs. Unfortunately, water pollution, overfishing, and unsustainable fishing practices (like using fishing nets with illegal mesh sizes) have caused overexploitation of the lagoon. In July 2017, Micos lagoon experienced a number of hypoxic events that devastated the food chain, leaving more than 500 fishers and their families without their usual income.<\/p>\n<p>Shortly thereafter, CORAL began work with the fishing community of Los Cerritos to create an egg-laying hen project. We partnered with a cooperative of 12 women who are either fishers themselves or married to fishers, and gave them a microgrant for the purchase of 120 egg-laying hens. After a year of construction, learning, and trial and error, the hens are now providing an alternative source of protein for the community and helping them adapt to new fishing regulations and changing environmental conditions (e.g. hypoxic events) in the lagoon.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1272\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1272\" style=\"width: 660px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-1272 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/coral.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/Another-woman-with-hen-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"An alternative livelihood project in Honduras helps save coral reefs\" width=\"660\" height=\"495\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1272\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Women from the Los Cerritos women&#8217;s co-op proudly handle their new hens.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Income diversification activities like this one not only reduce fishing pressure but also engender goodwill and increase compliance with local fishing regulations. Together with scientific monitoring, enforcement patrols, sustainable policies, and education, they are a highly valuable conservation strategy for people and reefs.<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-1274 size-thumbnail aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/coral.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/eggs-in-basket-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/p>\n<p>***************<\/p>\n<h3>La Cr\u00eda de Pollos y Abejas para Salvar los Arrecifes de Coral<\/h3>\n<p>Los arrecifes de coral proporcionan una importante fuente de alimentos e ingresos para las comunidades costeras e insulares de todo el mundo. Pero m\u00e1s del 55 por ciento de los arrecifes est\u00e1n amenazados por la sobrepesca a nivel mundial.<\/p>\n<p>La sobrepesca no solo altera la delicada ecolog\u00eda de los arrecifes de coral, sino que tambi\u00e9n afecta negativamente a las comunidades locales que dependen de ellos. Si los pescadores no pueden obtener suficientes peces, pueden tener dificultades para ganarse la vida o alimentar a sus familias.<\/p>\n<p>Aqu\u00ed es donde entran en juego las abejas y los pollos.<\/p>\n<p>Los proyectos empresariales de \u201cdiversificaci\u00f3n de ingresos\u201d, como la cr\u00eda de gallinas ponedoras o la cr\u00eda de abejas, ofrecen nuevas formas para que los pescadores y sus familias ganen dinero. Cuando las comunidades tienen las habilidades y los recursos para generar ingresos de nuevas maneras, no necesitan pescar en exceso. El resultado es una soluci\u00f3n en la que todos salimos ganando y en la que las personas dejan de depender en exceso de un \u00fanico recurso, al tiempo que las poblaciones de peces ya agotadas y los ecosistemas de los arrecifes de coral tienen la oportunidad de recuperarse y prosperar.<\/p>\n<p>Como parte de nuestra iniciativa de\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/coral.org\/what-we-do\/healthy-fisheries-for-reefs\/\">Pesquer\u00edas Saludables para los Arrecifes<\/a>, CORAL colabora con las comunidades locales para desarrollar proyectos de diversificaci\u00f3n de ingresos adaptados y localmente apropiados. Algunos de estos ejemplos incluyen nuestro proyecto de gallinas ponedoras en la costa de Honduras y nuestro proyecto de apicultura en Waivunia, Fiji. Ayudamos a capacitar a la poblaci\u00f3n local para que aprenda a administrar una tienda de artesan\u00edas o a convertirse en operador de gu\u00edas tur\u00edsticos, siempre teniendo en cuenta las preferencias e intereses de las comunidades y la disponibilidad de materiales para su puesta en funcionamiento y mantenimiento.<\/p>\n<p>Una de nuestras mayores historias de \u00e9xito viene de la Laguna de Micos en la costa norte de Honduras. Con su belleza natural y alta biodiversidad, la laguna es el coraz\u00f3n ecol\u00f3gico, social y econ\u00f3mico del Parque Nacional Blanca Jeannette Kawas. Sirve como h\u00e1bitat de cr\u00eda donde los peces arrecifales juveniles pasan su vida antes de poblar los arrecifes de coral de la Bah\u00eda de Tela. Desafortunadamente, la contaminaci\u00f3n del agua, la sobrepesca y las pr\u00e1cticas de pesca insostenibles (como el uso de redes de pesca con tama\u00f1os de malla ilegales) han provocado la sobreexplotaci\u00f3n de la laguna. En julio de 2017, la laguna de Los Micos experiment\u00f3 una serie de eventos hip\u00f3xicos que devastaron la cadena alimentaria, dejando a m\u00e1s de 500 pescadores y sus familias sin sus ingresos habituales.<\/p>\n<p>Poco tiempo despu\u00e9s, CORAL comenz\u00f3 a trabajar con la comunidad pesquera de Los Cerritos para crear un proyecto de gallinas ponedoras. Nos asociamos con una cooperativa de 12 mujeres que son pescadoras o est\u00e1n casadas con pescadores, y les dimos una micro subvenci\u00f3n para la compra de 120 gallinas ponedoras. Tras un a\u00f1o de construcci\u00f3n, aprendizaje y ensayo y error, las gallinas son ahora una fuente alternativa de prote\u00ednas para la comunidad y les ayudan a adaptarse a las nuevas normas de pesca y a los cambios en las condiciones ambientales (por ejemplo, los eventos hip\u00f3xicos) en la laguna.<\/p>\n<p class=\"P68B1DB1-Normal3\" style=\"margin-bottom: 15.0pt; line-height: 15.0pt; background: white;\">Las actividades de diversificaci\u00f3n de ingresos como esta no solo reducen la presi\u00f3n pesquera, sino que tambi\u00e9n generan buena voluntad y aumentan el cumplimiento de las normas pesqueras locales. Junto con el monitoreo cient\u00edfico, el patrullaje de vigilancia, las pol\u00edticas sostenibles y la educaci\u00f3n, constituyen una estrategia de conservaci\u00f3n muy valiosa para las personas y los arrecifes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Coral reefs provide an important source of food and income for coastal and island communities around the world. But more than 55 percent of reefs are threatened by overfishing globally. Overfishing not only disrupts the delicate ecology of coral reefs, it also negatively impacts the local communities that depend on them. If fishers are unable&hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/coral.org\/en\/blog\/raising-chickens-and-bees-to-save-coral-reefs\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue Reading &#8594;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3031,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"full-width-content","_genesis_transparent_header":false,"_genesis_hide_siblings_nav":false,"_genesis_hide_flyout":false,"_genesis_subtitle":"","_genesis_subheading":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[311],"tags":[16,18],"class_list":{"0":"post-3030","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-local-news","8":"tag-honduras","9":"tag-tela","10":"entry"},"acf":[],"template_part":"\n<article class=\"article article-post post-3030 post type-post status-publish format-standard has-post-thumbnail category-local-news tag-honduras tag-tela entry\">\n\t<div class=\"entry-image\">\n\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/coral.org\/en\/blog\/raising-chickens-and-bees-to-save-coral-reefs\/\">\n\t\t\t<img width=\"740\" height=\"560\" src=\"https:\/\/static.coral.org\/uploads\/2021\/09\/HealthyReefHonduras-740x560.jpg\" class=\"attachment-preview size-preview wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" \/>\t\t<\/a>\n\t<\/div>\n\t<div class=\"entry-meta\">\n\t\t<ul class=\"post-categories\">\n\t<li><a href=\"https:\/\/coral.org\/en\/blog\/category\/local-news\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Local News<\/a><\/li><\/ul>\t<\/div>\n\t<div class=\"entry-body\">\n\t\t<h2 class=\"entry-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/coral.org\/en\/blog\/raising-chickens-and-bees-to-save-coral-reefs\/\" class=\"entry-title-link\">Raising Chickens and Bees to Save Coral Reefs<\/a><\/h2>\t\t<p>Coral reefs provide an important source of food and income for coastal and island communities around the world. 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