Quarterly coral, seagrass and water-quality surveys across twelve fixed lagoon stations, published as an open dataset local decision-makers can actually use.
Rs 38,000 covers one full quarterly survey of one lagoon station.
1 February 2026 – 30 June 2027
Coastal decisions in Mauritius are made far more often than they are measured. This project keeps twelve fixed monitoring stations between Balaclava and Cap Malheureux surveyed every quarter — coral cover and bleaching, seagrass extent, water quality and reef fish counts — using a protocol consistent enough that a decade of results can be compared to each other.
Everything collected is published openly. The point is not the survey; it is that a hotel manager, a fisher association or a ministry can look up what a stretch of lagoon was doing three years ago before deciding what to do to it next year.
Funding covers boat time, dive equipment servicing, two field scientists and the data publication that closes the loop.
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Second-quarter survey is complete across all twelve stations. Coral cover is holding at the northern stations; the two stations closest to the river mouth show the turbidity spike we see every year after heavy rain, and we will know by the next survey whether it cleared as usual.
The dataset is updated and open. If you work on this coast and want the raw numbers rather than the summary, ask us — that is what it is for.
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