David Obura
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Director, CORDIO East Africa
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I am a Founding Director of CORDIO East Africa, supporting coral reef and marine activities in mainland Africa and Indian Ocean island states. CORDIO’s work includes research, monitoring and capacity building, as well as working with stakeholders, managers and policy makers to support sustainability and coping with climate change. My primary research focuses on a biodiversity hypothesis for coral reefs of the West & North Indian Ocean, through work on coral species and their current distributions and phylogeography, and coral reef resilience. This work is helping to build a regional partnership for marine management in the Northern Mozambique Channel under the auspices of governments thr.
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east africa
western indian ocean
corals
sustainable development
blue economy
economy
coral reefs
scleractinia
identification
indian ocean
climate change
bleaching
coral bleaching
assessment
monitoring
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