{"id":28254,"date":"2025-08-13T17:32:05","date_gmt":"2025-08-13T22:32:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cbf-trubudget.com\/dominican-republic-coral-reef-monitoring-effort-yields-critical-conservation-insights\/"},"modified":"2026-06-01T16:46:38","modified_gmt":"2026-06-01T21:46:38","slug":"dominican-republic-coral-reef-monitoring-effort-yields-critical-conservation-insights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/caribbeanbiodiversityfund.org\/fr\/dominican-republic-coral-reef-monitoring-effort-yields-critical-conservation-insights\/","title":{"rendered":"Le programme de surveillance des r\u00e9cifs coralliens en R\u00e9publique dominicaine fournit des informations cruciales pour la conservation."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Les r\u00e9cifs coralliens de la R\u00e9publique dominicaine sont de plus en plus menac\u00e9s par l&#039;\u00e9l\u00e9vation de la temp\u00e9rature des oc\u00e9ans et les maladies coralliennes, ce qui rend urgent un suivi scientifique. Coordonn\u00e9e par le Dominican Reef Network (RAD), avec le soutien technique de The Nature Conservancy (TNC), une initiative nationale a permis de suivre l&#039;\u00e9tat de sant\u00e9 des coraux de 2021 \u00e0 2024, fournissant des donn\u00e9es essentielles pour l&#039;\u00e9laboration de strat\u00e9gies de conservation.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Dans le cadre de la Commission nationale des maladies coralliennes et du Plan d&#039;\u00e9tude de l&#039;\u00e9pizootiologie corallienne, et gr\u00e2ce au soutien technique et logistique du Centre pour la conservation et le d\u00e9veloppement \u00e9cologique de la baie de Saman\u00e1 et de ses environs (CEBSE), des chercheurs ont men\u00e9 10 exp\u00e9ditions trimestrielles sur 20 sites r\u00e9cifaux r\u00e9partis sur cinq sites cl\u00e9s le long de la c\u00f4te atlantique de la R\u00e9publique dominicaine. \u00c0 partir de 183 relev\u00e9s, les scientifiques ont document\u00e9 deux \u00e9pisodes majeurs de mortalit\u00e9 massive\u00a0:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">2021\u00a0: Une grave \u00e9pid\u00e9mie de la maladie de d\u00e9p\u00e9rissement des tissus des coraux scl\u00e9ractiniaires (SCTLD), touchant principalement les coraux durs. <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Orbicella <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">et <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Pseudodiplorie <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">esp\u00e8ces.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">2023\u00a0: Un \u00e9pisode de blanchissement massif des coraux, le plus grave jamais enregistr\u00e9, li\u00e9 \u00e0 des temp\u00e9ratures oc\u00e9aniques extr\u00eames.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">La troisi\u00e8me exp\u00e9dition de 2024 a \u00e9tendu l&#039;\u00e9tude au-del\u00e0 des r\u00e9cifs coralliens pour inclure six sites de mangroves et six herbiers marins, pour la plupart \u00e9tudi\u00e9s pour la premi\u00e8re fois. Cet \u00e9largissement s&#039;inscrivait dans le cadre de MONITOREA, un projet coordonn\u00e9 par la Fondation dominicaine pour les \u00e9tudes maritimes (FUNDEMAR), avec le soutien de TNC et un financement de l&#039;Ambassade de France en R\u00e9publique dominicaine. Le projet MONITOREA renforce les efforts d&#039;\u00e9valuation de la sant\u00e9 des \u00e9cosyst\u00e8mes c\u00f4tiers en structurant ces \u00e9tudes int\u00e9gr\u00e9es, soulignant ainsi la n\u00e9cessit\u00e9 d&#039;un suivi continu et de strat\u00e9gies d&#039;att\u00e9nuation.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Lors de la derni\u00e8re exp\u00e9dition, la SCTLD a \u00e9t\u00e9 d\u00e9tect\u00e9e sur plusieurs sites, soulignant son impact persistant. De plus, des \u00e9pisodes de blanchissement des coraux ont \u00e9t\u00e9 observ\u00e9s, signe d&#039;une vuln\u00e9rabilit\u00e9 accrue due aux changements climatiques. Ces observations renforcent l&#039;urgence de mettre en \u0153uvre des strat\u00e9gies de gestion adaptatives pour pr\u00e9venir la d\u00e9gradation de l&#039;\u00e9cosyst\u00e8me.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">L&#039;\u00e9tude suit \u00e9galement les populations de poissons-perroquets (Scaridae), essentiels \u00e0 la r\u00e9silience des r\u00e9cifs en raison de leur r\u00f4le dans la r\u00e9gulation des macroalgues. Les donn\u00e9es de 2024 montrent un d\u00e9clin continu de leur abondance et de leur biomasse, probablement d\u00fb \u00e0 la pression de la p\u00eache. Ces tendances soulignent la n\u00e9cessit\u00e9 d&#039;une gestion durable des p\u00eacheries pour pr\u00e9server la sant\u00e9 des r\u00e9cifs.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A crucial component of this initiative is capacity building. The project has provided hands-on training to emerging ecologists, including Estefany Vargas (FUNDEMAR) and Yasmin Evangelista (MIMARENA), both senior biology students at the Universidad Aut\u00f3noma de Santo Domingo (UASD). Their work in data collection contributes to their undergraduate theses, which are co-funded and co-supervised by TNC, demonstrating the project\u2019s impact on marine science education in the Dominican Republic.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Les r\u00e9sultats de cette initiative ont donn\u00e9 lieu \u00e0 trois publications scientifiques \u00e9valu\u00e9es par des pairs, soulignant l&#039;importance d&#039;un suivi structur\u00e9 pour comprendre l&#039;\u00e9volution des r\u00e9cifs coralliens et les \u00e9pid\u00e9mies. Ces recherches ont contribu\u00e9 au d\u00e9bat international sur la conservation des r\u00e9cifs des Cara\u00efbes, en proposant un mod\u00e8le de suivi \u00e9cosyst\u00e9mique \u00e0 long terme.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Pour l\u2019avenir, il est urgent de renforcer les programmes de surveillance, d\u2019\u00e9tendre la formation technique et de mettre en \u0153uvre des strat\u00e9gies de conservation cibl\u00e9es afin de pr\u00e9server les r\u00e9cifs coralliens dominicains. Le succ\u00e8s de ce projet souligne l\u2019importance de la collaboration, d\u2019une conservation fond\u00e9e sur les donn\u00e9es et de l\u2019investissement dans l\u2019expertise locale pour prot\u00e9ger ces \u00e9cosyst\u00e8mes fragiles pour les g\u00e9n\u00e9rations futures.<\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_14955\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-14955\" style=\"width: 800px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/caribbeanbiodiversityfund.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/cchf_dr_01-scaled.webp\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-14955 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/caribbeanbiodiversityfund.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/cchf_dr_01-1024x578.webp\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"452\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-14955\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Corail pr\u00e9sentant des signes de maladie | Cr\u00e9dit photo : Samuel King<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"font-family: tahoma, sans-serif;\">Les opinions exprim\u00e9es dans ces articles sont donn\u00e9es \u00e0 titre informatif seulement et ne repr\u00e9sentent pas la position officielle du Fonds pour la biodiversit\u00e9 des Cara\u00efbes ni de ses partenaires.<\/span><\/em><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The coral reefs of the Dominican Republic face increasing threats from rising ocean temperatures and coral diseases, driving an urgent need for scientific monitoring. 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