GTI calls - SOIFA Ahamed Soilih, Comoros

GTI calls - SOIFA Ahamed Soilih, Comoros Abstract In recent years, holothuroids have been overexploited in the Comoros. In order to make operational a conservation strategy, composition, distribution and abundance of the different holothuroid species present in the Comorese waters must be asssessed. Herefore taxonomic capacity must be raised.    Training location and duration: <a href="/gti/urls/royal-belgian-institute-natural-sciences-brussels/" target="_blank">Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences</a>, Brussels and <a href="/gti/urls/royal-museum-central-africa-rmca/" target="_blank">Royal Museum for Central Africa</a>, Tervuren; from 20.VI.2004 to 04.VII.2004.The training in Belgium was complemented with a field training in the Comoros. Details onthis field training can befound in the <a href="/gti_calls/grants_awarded/grants_other/soifa-ahamed-soilih-comoros/gti_calls/grants_awarded/grants_other/soifa-ahamed-soilih-comoros/Rap_-_Comores_2004.pdf">mission report of the Belgian tutors</a><img title="PDF" src="/getContentTypePicture?id=application/pdf" alt="PDF" width="16" height="16" />.   Gained personal capacity: Mr SOIFA has become the'Point focal holothuries' for his country.  In that position, differentstakeholders regularly solicit him.   Gained institutional capacity: through synergy with another capacity building program, in caso a project financed via the <a href="/gti/urls/abic/" target="_blank">African Biodiversity Information Center</a>,the local center of expertise (the 'Centre National de Documentation et de Recherche Scientifique' in Moroni) is now equipped with a dissecting microscope, a light microscope and with materials needed for samplingand preserving holothuroids. The Belgian GTI Focal Point equipped MrSOIFA with a digital camera to allow him to better document the observed species.    Remarks: the above-mentioned capacity building projects culminated in the <a href="/gti_abctaxa/volumes/volume-1-taxonomie-des-holothuries-des-comores">first volume of the journal Abc Taxa</a>. Scientific results have also been diffused by the Belgian tutors through a poster (<a href="/gti/docs/posters-gti-team/Holothuroidea_Comoros.pdf" target="_blank">Samyn </a><a href="/gti/docs/posters-gti-team/Holothuroidea_Comoros.pdf">et al</a><a href="/gti/docs/posters-gti-team/Holothuroidea_Comoros.pdf" title="PDF">., 2005</a>, <img title="PDF" src="/getContentTypePicture?id=application/pdf" alt="PDF" width="16" height="16" />) and papers (<a href="/gti/docs/papers-gti-team/Samyn_et_al_2005.pdf" target="_blank" title="samyn et al, 2005">Samyn et al, 2005</a><img title="PDF" src="/getContentTypePicture?id=application/pdf" alt="PDF" width="16" height="16" />, <a href="/gti/docs/papers-gti-team/Samyn_etal_2006.pdf" target="_blank" title="PDF">Samyn et al, 2006</a><img title="PDF" src="/getContentTypePicture?id=application/pdf" alt="PDF" width="16" height="16" />).    Selected output: .       <a href="/gti_calls/grants_awarded/grants_other/soifa-ahamed-soilih-comoros/gti_calls/grants_awarded/grants_other/soifa-ahamed-soilih-comoros/Arrete_Holothurie.pdf">Arrêté Portant Interdiction Totale d'Exploitation des Holothuriesà des Fins Commerciales.</a><a href="/gti/gti_calls/grants_awarded/soifa-ahamed-soilih-comoros/Arrete_Holothurie.pdf" target="_blank"></a> .       <a href="/gti_calls/grants_awarded/grants_other/soifa-ahamed-soilih-comoros/gti_calls/grants_awarded/grants_other/soifa-ahamed-soilih-comoros/Restitution_2004.pdf">VandenSpiegel, D.; Samyn, Y.; Massin, C. 2004. Renforcement des capacités taxonomiques - Les holothuries des Comores.</a> <img src="http://www.biodiv.be/getContentTypePicture?id=application/pdf" alt="" /> Powerpoint presentation , prepared by the tutors of Mr Soifa; for a press conference in Moroni. <a href="/gti/gti_calls/grants_awarded/soifa-ahamed-soilih-comoros/Restitution_2004.pdf" target="_blank"></a> .       <a href="/gti_calls/grants_awarded/grants_other/soifa-ahamed-soilih-comoros/gti_calls/grants_awarded/grants_other/soifa-ahamed-soilih-comoros/Restitution2005.pdf">Soifa, A. VandenSpiegel, D.; Samyn, Y. 2005. Renforcement des capacités taxonomiques -Les holothuries des Comores</a>.Powerpoint presentation prepared by Mr Soifa and his tutors; used for informing the staff of the biology department of the University of the Comores in Moroni. .        <a href="/gti_calls/grants_awarded/grants_other/soifa-ahamed-soilih-comoros/gti_calls/grants_awarded/grants_other/soifa-ahamed-soilih-comoros/Soifa_Conference.pdf">Soifa, A. 2009. Les Holothuries des Comores</a>. Mini symposium organised in the series ‘Les Mercredis du CNDRS' sessions. Université des Comores, 08.IV.2008.<a href="/gti/gti_calls/grants_awarded/soifa-ahamed-soilih-comoros/Soifa_Conference.pdf" target="_blank"></a>   <h3><img src="http://www.biodiv.be/gti/gti_calls/PhotoArchive/IMG_0524.jpg/view?display=Medium" alt="" width="187" height="140" /><img src="http://www.biodiv.be/gti/gti_calls/PhotoArchive/DSCN0144.jpg/view?display=Medium" alt="" width="209" height="140" /><img style="margin: 0px; width: 200px; height: 150px;" title="PhotoArchive.zip/IMG_0508.jpg" src="/gti_calls/PhotoArchive/IMG_0508.jpg/view?display=XSmall" alt="" width="200" height="150" /></h3> Left: Bohadschia subrubra (Quoy & Gaimard, 1833) - a sea cucumber with little commercial value (Photo by: Y. SAMYN). Middle: Capacity building in the lab (Photo by: D. VANDENSPIEGEL). Right: Capacity building in the field: teaching where to sample (Photo by: D. VANDENSPIEGEL). 2011-10-10T11:03:49Z tag:www.taxonomy.be,2011-10-10:/gti_calls/grants_awarded/grants_other/soifa-ahamed-soilih-comoros http://www.taxonomy.be/gti_calls/misc_/CHM2/Site.gif GTI calls Restitution_2004 tag:www.taxonomy.be,2011-10-10:/gti_calls/grants_awarded/grants_other/soifa-ahamed-soilih-comoros/Restitution_2004.pdf 2011-10-10T11:03:49Z ysamyn ysamyn

Restitution 2005 tag:www.taxonomy.be,2011-10-10:/gti_calls/grants_awarded/grants_other/soifa-ahamed-soilih-comoros/Restitution2005.pdf 2011-10-10T11:03:49Z ysamyn ysamyn

Arrêté Holoturies tag:www.taxonomy.be,2011-10-10:/gti_calls/grants_awarded/grants_other/soifa-ahamed-soilih-comoros/Arrete_Holothurie.pdf 2011-10-10T11:03:49Z ysamyn ysamyn

Les Mercredis du CNDRS tag:www.taxonomy.be,2011-10-10:/gti_calls/grants_awarded/grants_other/soifa-ahamed-soilih-comoros/Soifa_Conference.pdf 2011-10-10T11:03:49Z ysamyn ysamyn

Report 2004 tag:www.taxonomy.be,2011-10-10:/gti_calls/grants_awarded/grants_other/soifa-ahamed-soilih-comoros/Rap_-_Comores_2004.pdf 2011-10-10T11:03:49Z ysamyn ysamyn