l`ORP - IRCP

by Nicolas Buray
founder
Photo: Thomas Vignaud
Association loi 1901, l’ORP est créé le 15 décembre 2011.
ORP Targets
1. Conservation /
Management
3. Knowledge
2. Communication
Photo: Nicolas Buray
1. Conservation / Management
• December 4, 2012: mako shark (Isurus oxyrinchus) is a protected species
and joins all the others that have been since 2006.
Polynesia, becoming the largest sanctuary in the world with an EEZ of about 5
million km2
• Setting up of regulations on the "shark feeding" to improve space
management and methodology of this activity
Photo: Sylvain Girardot
2. Communication
• Media: newspapers, TV,
documentaries, social networks ...
• Pedagogic tool: posters
• Education: intervention in businesses,
schools, and various events, drawing
contest throughout Polynesia with
young students
Photo: Sylvain Girardot
ORP basis: CITIZEN SCIENCE by a
Observers Network
3. Knowledge
2 programs :« Coastal shark » and « Tiger shark »
The “Coastal shark" program via the website
WWW.ORP.PF
• +55 professionals diving instructors,
• +20 advanced observers (scientists,
photographers ...)
• 5 archipelagos
• • 32 diving centers,
• • +6500 datas records of observations since
January 2012.
Photo: Michel Bègue
Two types of data collected:
- Regular and systematic observations
- Occasional Observations (meetings uncommon)
Photo: Eric Clua
Rangiroa, Tiputa
Regular and systematic observations
permit:
- Communicate on sharks ”in live" via the
www.orp.pf site,
- Tracking abundances in the long term,
- Give answers and feedback to instructors &
diving centers,
- Get a database that will make sense in a
few years,
- Create an online data map with probability
of encounters on a specific site
Occassional observations permit:
- Communicate on sharks « in live » (Facebook).
- List the exceptional renconters (R. typus, C. leucas, C longimanus…) and
unlisted species like Odontaspis ferox.
- Possibility of publishing on rare observations.
Photo: Chistian Hornecker
Photo: Ludovic Jego)
Par Johann Mourier
« Tiger Shark » program:
• Since 2011, the observations of tiger sharks in Tahiti are recurrent,
• ORP’s observers communicate us information & photo of tigers encountered,
• Establishment of identification sheets for each shark, allowing to study their
abundance and specific behaviors related to reproduction,
• A project to study the movements of these sharks via acoustic tagging, working
with CRIOBE and local institutions, is under development.
Photo: Michel Bègue
Exemple de fiche sur un requin tigre
Pre-coital behavior of tiger sharks
(Vallée blanche, le 22/08/2013 T01♀ + T22♂)
The future
Continue efforts
- Actions from local
institutions for a better
management of the feeding
site,
- Behavior study on tiger and
lemon shark with Criobe,
- Resume the "Pelagic
program” (Christophe
Misselis, Shelley Clark,
CRIOBE ...)
- Awareness of children
remain the best way to
ensure a better future for
sharks
Photo: Renaud Fayada
Improving the website:
The future
For tourism:
- French Polynesia promotion with the
"sharks”image. (Gie Tahiti Tourism),
Map to find the probability of encounters,
For scientist:
- Adapt the data questionnaire.
Photo: Renaud Fayada
MERCI A VOUS!
Suivez nous sur notre page Facebook:
« Observatoire des Requins de Polynésie »
Les partenaires de l’ORP et du CRIOBE :
www.orp.pf
L’ORP remercie chaleureusement tous les centres et
moniteurs participant bénévolement à l’ORP.
Et un spécial « mauruuru » à Christophe Misselis, Johann Mourier, Pierpaolo
Brenat, Serge Planes, Eric Clua, Michel Bègue, Philippe Billard, Sandrine
Maurice.