The MUI teams partnership with eOceans to develop a project on the eOceans app to track megafauna, a development of a project going for many years, is going well! The team is currently in the testing phase of this project and hopes to be able to share it with other ocean users in Laamu when it’s ready! By using eOceans as a platform for this project it allows for a single data point to go to multiple projects (e.g a project just for Laamu and a Maldives wide project), and enables real time data tracking and analysis.

95 observations made through eOceans

56% of observations included green turtles
53% of observations included hawksbill turtles
43% of observations included whitetip reef sharks
39% of observations included blacktip reef sharks

For each dive, snorkel, or encounter the MUI team has, we enter our data into eOceans. This can either be through a site list, or a georeferenced photo taken. The Laamu project accepts all data involving sharks, rays, turtles, groupers, and threats such as Crown of Thorns Starfish and Pollution. This way we can track the long-term trends in populations as well as the threats that they face in real time!

EOCEANS RESULTS ROLLING IN!