BRIDGES Research Program 

BRIDGES – Fisheries and Biodiversity in the Western Indian Ocean is an interdisciplinary research and scientific cooperation program aiming to identify solutions for biodiversity conservation and fair, sustainable fishing in the South-Western Indian Ocean (SWIO).
The SWIO is one of the world’s richest regions in terms of biodiversity, where small-scale fishing is key to the wellbeing and nutrition security of many communities. But global pressures – climate change, growing global demand for natural resources, intensification of uses – are threatening ecosystems, and the human societies that depend on them.

This is the context for BRIDGES  which aims to carry out ambitious collaborative research to bolster social and environmental resilience, and support a future generation of researchers and actors for the region. This program in funded by France2030 for 10 years.

BRIDGES : Healthy ocean, protected fisheries