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"Empowering Palk Bay Fishers: Enhancing Socioeconomic and Marine Conservation for Sustainable Fisheries"
Boat and Gear Donation: Providing wooden boats and fishing gear to artisanal fishers, enabling them to sustain traditional fishing methods. Educational Scholarships: Offering scholarships to girls from low-income fishing families to encourage higher education and reduce dependency on fishing as the sole income source. Marine Conservation Leadership (MCL) Fellowship: Training 50 fisher youths in marine conservation, leadership, and technical skills to monitor and protect local marine resources. Internship Program: Facilitating internships for young marine conservation researchers, providing hands-on experience in community-based conservation. Restoration of Traditional Fishing Practices: Reviving traditional boat building through workshops, preserving cultural heritage and skills.
Potential conservation benefits in saving biodiversity
Potential reduction of species extinction risk resulting from threat abatement actions
The chart below represents the relative disaggregation of the selected contribution's total potential opportunity for reducing global species extinction risk through taking actions to abate different threats to species within its boundaries. The percentages refer to the amount of the total opportunity that could potentially be achieved through abating that particular threat.