Lighthouse Foundation Projects

The foundation supports regional development plans worldwide with the aim of promoting integrated and long-term approaches in the relationship between humans and the marine environment within the context of sustainable development. The aims of the foundation focus not just on providing short-term development support or alleviating serious environmental abuse. Rather, the Lighthouse Foundation’s intention is to contribute towards long-term change in a given situation taking into account the environmental, economic, cultural and social conditions in a region.

All regional activities are based on local initiatives by the parties involved.

Projects supported must have the potential to act as an example of the feasibility of sustainable development.

News:

23/11/2009 - World leaders should recognize the immense potential of the ocean to reduce global warming by capturing carbon, if we are to avoid a serious climate crisis. The IUCN report, supported by Natural England, UNEP and the Lighthouse Foundation, and compiled by leading scientists in this field, provides the latest evidence of the ocean’s ability to store carbon and the role each of these marine ecosystems play in reducing the negative effects of climate change. Download, pdf 1,8MB

Management of Marine Resources

	Ecuador: Model for a Sustainable Small-Scale Fishery The certification of a responsible fishing operation is one of the most important fishing management instruments for the future. The objective of certification is to produce and market fish...
	Philippines: Effective Fisheries Management The Philippines is an archipelagic country that lies in the heart of the most biologically diverse region on earth for coastal biodiversity. The rich marine life has consistently made the Philippines among the twelve top fish producing countries in the world....
	Kenya: Marine Resources and Participative Management The central problems are the same as those that exist in many countries of the world, which are especially concentrated on coasts: population growth, loss of social and communal identity, shortage of resources, hunger, poverty....
	Kenya: Improved fish processing by smoking and solar drying The importance of fish preservation cannot be over stated. The improvement of the traditional fish processing methods go a long way in ensuring production of higher quality products for the market...
	India: Mangreen - Mangrove Restauration & Ecology When a tsunami hit the coasts of South-East Asia in December 2004, it swept away everything in its path. More than 200,000 people died as a result of the sea surge...
	Panama: Making Marine Resource Use in Kuna Yala Sustainable This project aims to remedy some local causes of serious deterioration of marine ecosystems in the indigenous territory of Kuna Yala, namely over-fishing and coral extraction...

Sustainable development of the coasts

	Chile: Coastal Zone Management in the Gulfs of Ancud and Corcovado In the 1980’s, in the wake of the global expansion in fishing and fish farming, these unpolluted waters were discovered to be the ideal area for salmon farming. This economic sector has grown 140 fold since...
	Chile: Sustainable Development & Nature Conservation Despite Patagonia’s outstanding, and internationally recognized environmental and cultural value, it is today on the sights of transnational companies for the implementation of mega industrial projects...
	Russia: Resource management step by step The greatest problem in the region, and therefore with the implementation of the project, is the difficult economic situation in North Karelia – job losses and the migration of young and qualified people and their families...
	St. Vincent & the Grenadines: Sustainable Integrated Development Unplanned development and unregulated use of terrestrial and marine habitats and resources have already led to significant degradation in many areas...

Education for sustainable development

	Germany: Citizen of the ocean Each Citizen of the Ocean is a sea ambassador of the earth. By being aware of the situation, by concretely acting thanks to small daily actions, everyone can give its contribution to the oceans...
	Germany: "Man and Sea" - learning as a special experience 20 schoolchildren from the Klaus-Groth school in Neumünster have swapped the four walls of their biology lab for the decks of the "Carola" for a day to take part in an ecological boat trip....
	Philippines: Training of Core Group Leaders Well-organized and strong fisherfolk organizations result in a FARMC that has a strong leadership and capable of effectively performing its mandated duties. The project puts emphasis on the formation of core group leaders...
	Global: Youth Visioning for Island Living - What does the future hold? Youth Visioning for Island Living has taken great steps forward in 2006 and recorded a significant in-crease in activities. This development has contributed to fine tuning the project’s work...
	Mexico: Sustainable Tourism at the caribbean coast For many coastal areas, tourism represents a pillar of the economic potential, and support for the tourist infrastructure based on sustainability criteria can make a significant contribution to the development of a region.
	Argentina: New Exhibition at the 'Ecocentro Puerto Madryn' The EcoCentro in Puerto Madryn, Argentina, represents the first and only centre in Argentina that is exclusively devoted to education relating to marine ecosystems, having the Southwest Atlantic marine ecosystem as its centrepiece...
	Russia: Collection and preservation The follow-up to a research expedition is normally a period of laborious work. From short local trips to exhausting long-haul voyages, the purpose of any expedition is the quest for data and study material....

Tourism, growth and development

	Madagascar: Sustainable Tourism for Sainte Marie and Ile aux Nattes Tourism has been booming for years here on this small island off the country’s east coast. The majority of visitors to the island over the last twenty years have been backpackers...
	Mexico: Mexico: The visitor centre on Isla Contoy For many coastal areas, tourism represents a pillar of the economic potential, and support for the tourist infrastructure based on sustainability criteria can make a significant contribution to the development of a region...
	Brasil: Local Beach - Global Garbage Every beachcomber at some time or another dreams of finding something special: a secret message from Pacific climes, a cry for help from a stranded Robinson Crusoe, the missing fragment of a long-lost treasure map – washed up as a message in a bottle!...
	Cruise Tourism Report 2008 On 15 January 2008 Conservation International, Cozumel’s Department of Tourism and the Florida-Caribbean Cruise Association witnessed the culmination of their 12-month partnership with the signing of a groundbreaking conservation agreement...
	Cruise Tourism in the Antarctic The dangers that lie behind polar cruise tourism were graphically illustrated when the Antarctic cruise ship MS Explorer struck what was believed to be an iceberg on 23 November 2007 and sank in sub-zero temperatures in the Bransfield Strait...
	Svalbard: Cruise tourism in the Arctic Tourists have travelled on ships to the Arctic for a long time. On Svalbard, for example, paying travellers first visited this archipelago between the Norwegian mainland and the North Pole by boat in the 1890s...
	Kapverden: Workshop zur nachhaltigen touristischen Entwicklung In Zukunft sind auf den Kapverden erhebliche Investitionen in Hotelanlagen und in All-Inklusive Resorts zu erwarten. Auf die Begleiterscheinungen einer massiven Ausweitung des Tourismus jedoch scheinen weder die Regierung, noch...(in German, Spanish)