{"id":5552,"date":"2024-08-20T06:08:06","date_gmt":"2024-08-20T06:08:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.madawhalesharks.org\/?p=5552"},"modified":"2024-08-20T06:08:06","modified_gmt":"2024-08-20T06:08:06","slug":"the-2024-operator-training-is-underway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.madawhalesharks.org\/fr\/the-2024-operator-training-is-underway\/","title":{"rendered":"The 2024 Operator Training is underway"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Madagascar Whale Shark Project foundation and the C\u00e9tamada association, mandated by the Ministry of Tourism, have organised a new operator training course format, with the aim of promoting the responsible observation of marine megafauna as well as regulating marine tourism.<\/p>\n<p>This year, we&rsquo;ve opted for a brand new format, with <strong>3 modules <\/strong>spread over the season:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>MODULE 1<\/strong>: Discovery of the Nosy Be marine ecosystem, global overview of whale shark tourism and presentation of the inter-ministerial decree and the codes of conduct.<\/li>\n<li><strong>MODULE 2<\/strong>: Introduction to first aid and water rescue.<\/li>\n<li><strong>MODULE 3<\/strong>: Practical day at sea on how to approach whale sharks responsibly.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-5549 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.madawhalesharks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/Charte-dobservation-RB-300x212.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"543\" height=\"384\" \/><\/p>\n<p>So far we have already completed the two first modules. It was a great success, with around a hundred participants spread across the 5 training locations in the region: Ambatoloaka &#8211; Nosy Sakatia &#8211; Nosy Komba &#8211; Shanty Beach &#8211; Andilana.<\/p>\n<p>We have now completed modules 1 and 2. We&rsquo;ve had nothing but positive feedback on the training format, which includes discussions and exchanges between users of the sea, scientific knowledge, various role-playing exercises and activities designed to change practices and behaviour on the water in favour of protecting marine mammals, especially the whale shark.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-5556 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/www.madawhalesharks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/IMG_7508-300x214.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"401\" height=\"286\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-5554 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/www.madawhalesharks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/240617_module1_ambatoloaka-08355-1-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"428\" height=\"285\" \/><\/p>\n<p>A second wave of training will take place soon, to include those who couldn\u2019t make it at the previous sessions, and to train as many people as possible. The third module will take place in September. We hope thanks to these efforts, this year will mark a new era for whale shark tourism in Nosy Be as the first country in Africa and the Indian Ocean to have a law governing whale shark tourism!<\/p>\n<p>We thank all our partners for their help and support : Action Solidarit\u00e9 Pompiers de Th\u00e9oule &#8211;\u00a0 H\u00f4tel Corail Noir &#8211; H\u00f4tel Restaurant Maison Carr\u00e9.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Madagascar Whale Shark Project foundation and the C\u00e9tamada association, mandated by the Ministry of Tourism, have organised a new operator training course format, with the aim of promoting the responsible observation of marine megafauna as well as regulating marine [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":5563,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5552","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-code-of-conduct","category-education"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madawhalesharks.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5552","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madawhalesharks.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madawhalesharks.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madawhalesharks.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madawhalesharks.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5552"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.madawhalesharks.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5552\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madawhalesharks.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5563"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madawhalesharks.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5552"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madawhalesharks.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5552"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madawhalesharks.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5552"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}