To enhance climate change resilience by protecting the island from rising sea level and heavy storm impacts, to increase sequestration of carbon in coastal areas, and to restore ecosystems replant mangroves to rehabilitate damaged mangrove areas and corals to improve status of local reefs.

Nusa Penida is a learning site. It provides a platform for training and field visits by governmental and non-governmental participants and MPA managers. Prepare outreach material, build a library, develop training and field visits. Train CTC staff and key stakeholder representatives, and conduct pre-and post-visit planning and review sessions for customization and quality control. Apply a small fee or in-kind contribution from programme participants.

The joint identification of priority areas for intervention and solutions, using already existing (local) ideas and set-ups, is key. Livelihood diversification and adaptation technique are developed in order to decrease the direct pressure on natural resources and decrease the dependency of communities to these local resources, threatened by climate change (e.g. developing various forms of aquaculture, marine product processing, improved fish trade marketing, supporting certification for sustainable fisheries, ecotourism, etc.).

Local management infrastructure includes office building, boats, museum, which is necessary to support the effective implementation of the Cham Islands MPA management plan. A program office acts as a coordinating centre to set up the Cham Islands MPA zoning plan and regulation roadmap. It supervises monitoring and conducts research of coastal water quality and ecological system health. It coordinates development of management regulations and supports the development of alternative livelihoods. It also carries out public awareness raising and education activities.

A community-based ecotourism home stay program has been developed. The approach promotes socio-economic development, and provides opportunities for local income generation. There is also broad community participation in recovery and sustainable exploitation of Cu Lao Cham Land Crabs. They developed a common guideline, which supports local people to form a land crab group that will issue and approve regulations governing the use of crabs.

Maintaining oversight and monitoring of the marine protected area are conducted with various agencies working in the area. These include the Border Guard, local police, and local people. It is very important to encourage local communities to participate in patrolling and provide information on violations, as well as giving them a direct stake in local natural resource protection.

Fair Trade Tourism (FTT) operates the world’s first and still only Fair Trade Tourism certification program. The program was developed 10 years ago and became the first tourism certification program in Africa to be recognized by the Global Sustainable Tourism Council in December 2011.Tourism businesses that adhere to the FTT standard use the FTT label as a way of signifying their commitment to fair and responsible tourism. The process of moving internal and external business procedures toward certification serves as management tool to improve businesses practices and makes them both more successful and more responsible. For its clients FTT offers free on demand Business Development Services (BDS) through its BDS Manager, along with free workshops and training, free online resources and toolkits. Once on our system, our Sales and Marketing Team actively links our clients to markets and advises them on how to use the brand association with FTT as a competitive benefit that signifies a commitment to fair and responsible tourism. FTT provides platforms to promote FTT-certified businesses. Tour operators commit to provide preferential exposure to FTT-certified businesses, or to promote Fair Trade holidays.

DICT installs shelters that mimic the natural burrows of the penguin, essentially creating homes for the breeding pairs and improving the chances of fledgling survival success. They have created a fibreglass/mesh resin nest that is lightweight yet durable and is made by the local community. DICT continuously records streams of seabirds, especially penguins that are found injured, oiled or sick on Dyer Island and the adjacent coastline. All vagrant and visiting seabirds are logged and GPS positions supplied for scientific research. DICT has built the first rehabilitation centre in the area: The African Penguin & Seabird Sanctuary, to assist in the conservation of all seabirds. Together with Marine Dynamics, DICT has funded a custom designed research vessel and developed a project where they acoustically track great white sharks in the area to better understand their behavior in relation to environmental parameters. Also a database of fin ID photographs from 2007 to 2012 taken off Marine Dynamics shark cage diving vessel helped in the first regional population study (showing lower numbers than previously assumed). The ultimate goal is protection of the Great White shark species and a growth in numbers for the African penguin.

DICT in association with the Overstrand Municipality established the Fishing Line Recovery Program along the Gansbaai shoreline. By increasing public awareness about the negative impacts that fishing line debris has on marine life, water quality, and human welfare, we reduce the amount of fishing line entering and remaining in the sea, and increase recycling of fishing line. A network of fishing line recycling bins has been placed at local beaches and popular fishing spots. This project has become an icon for marine litter and the Trust is part of a Technical and Advisory Committee addressing marine pollution. The vision is to see this project grow along the South African Coastline. In October 2011, part of this vision was realized when together with WESSA (Wildlife and environment Society of South Africa) and the Blue Flag Beach Program, the bins were being placed adjacent to all Blue Flag beaches. Blue Flag is one of the most well-known international voluntary eco-labels for beaches, marinas and boats. In 2013, for the first time, marine protected areas (MPAs) were included in the International Blue Flag Criteria. Whale Whisperer, a whale watching boat has Blue Flag status and was the pilot Blue Flag boat in South Africa.