MAURITIUS MARINE CONSERVATION SOCIETY

In Mauritius, the Mauritius Marine Conservation Society is associated with the Mauritius Underwater Group to form the Marine Conservation Management Consortium (MCMC). The objective of this union: carry out broader actions for the defence and protection of the marine environment and have more weight with the government and other international bodies. First project to obtain substantial funding from the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and the Ministry of the environment of Mauritius: the installation of permanent buoys for anchoring vessels at dive sites. The association should also continue the former MUG conservation works and MMCS: establishing artificial reefs by sinking old vessels, putting pressure on the government to prohibit (or at least limit) underwater shotgun hunting, shellfish and coral harvesting, explosive fishing, carrying out projects on certain species, developing new marine parks, etc. If you want to encourage marine conservation in Mauritius, you can join this association.