The Centre for Coastal Management - Africa Centre of Excellence in Coastal Resilience (CCM-ACECOR) of the University of Cape Coast participated actively in Ghana’s 2026 national celebration of World Wetlands Day, organised by the Wildlife Division of the Forestry Commission of Ghana in Anloga on the 6th February. The event highlighted the ecological, economic, and cultural significance of wetlands and underscored the critical role of traditional knowledge and community involvement in sustaining these ecosystems.
Professor Rashid Sumaila, a member of the International Advisory Board of the Centre for Coastal Management – Africa Centre of Excellence in Coastal Resilience (CCM-ACECoR), has paid a working visit to the Centre to provide support to the State of Fisheries and Aquaculture in West Africa Project, funded by the World Bank.
The GIS Unit of the Center for Coastal Management, ACECoR, recently held a hands-on drone flying training for graduate students in Environmental Science at the University of Cape Coast, as part of their advanced GIS and remote sensing course.
Students were particularly taken through the features and operation of the Mavic III thermal drone in collecting environmental data.
The Centre for Coastal Management, as part of its institutional culture, has held its first team meeting for the year, following last year’s work plan session for the year 2026.
Welcoming the team into the new year, the Acting Director, Prof. Precious Mattah, encouraged everyone to recommit to the Centre’s values and give their best to achieve its goals for the year.
The Centre for Coastal Management (CCM) at the University of Cape Coast, Ghana in collaboration with the Global Ocean Accounts Partnership (GOAP) is implementing a two-year Ocean Accounts Project in Ghana. This project aims to strengthen national ocean accounts, with a specific focus on aligning ecosystem extent accounts, informal and subsistence economies, and community-level social accounts.