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Sharing knowledge for conservation: seeking MPAs practitioners, managers, and scientists to complete a survey

The IUCN World Commission on Protected Areas Marine Connectivity Working Group is seeking MPAs practitioners, managers, or scientists’ inputs, to fill current gaps in knowledge and to gain feedback on how the newly generated Marine Connectivity Conservation ‘Rules of Thumb’ for MPA and

The new MPA Guide will help to negotiate the target of protecting at least 30% of the ocean by 2030

While MPAs are a central tool for ocean conservation, not all MPAs are the same. There are wide-ranging types of MPAs with various goals, regulations, and consequently, outcomes. This variety causes confusion. For example, some MPAs allow fishing, aquaculture and

Portraits of active women in the Mediterranean MPAs

The MedFund is pleased to announce the new publication Portraits of Active Women in Mediterranean MPAs, describing the experience and challenges of women from Albania, Tunisia, or Turkey who are strongly committed to the preservation of marine biodiversity. You will be

The FFEM publishes its new brochure “Capitalisation of Marine Protected Areas (Feedback on 25 years of projects)”

For 25 years, the FFEM has financed and supported AMP projects in various regions around the world. Armed with this experience, it has decided to launch a capitalisation and feedback exercise encompassing over 40 projects, to share the knowledge acquired,

Get help to implement a concession mechanism in your MPA – deadline: 27/09/21

With over 320 million tourists visiting the Mediterranean each year, signing concessions between tourism stakeholders and MPAs has the potential to channel tourism revenues into marine conservation. Following the first support program from BlueSeeds on visitor fees for marine protected areas,

Join the Blue Panda Lab on “Tourism and Marine Protected Areas in the post-Covid era”

The first Blue Panda Lab is a virtual event hosted by WWF Greece and will give the floor to seven engaging speakers from different fields who will search for the ingredients of the day after, and especially the coexistence of

Microplastics website and database launched

Originating mostly from plastic material such as bottles and bags, microplastics can be found in nearly every part of our environment—oceans, rivers, estuaries, beaches, sea ice, sediments, and more. Most microplastics start their journey on land and are carried by

Policy & Advocacy for Sustainable Fisheries in the Mediterranean Workshop – register before 1 September

IUCN is organizing this free online two-day workshop essentially targeting regional NGOs and civil society organisations, to strengthen know-how for enhancing the role of biodiversity and sustainable fisheries to support commitments to targeted policy processes at regional and national levels

The Marine Mammal Management Toolkit, a tool for managers and policymakers

Marine mammals play a crucial role in marine ecosystem function and climate change resilience by sequestering carbon through the consumption of energy rich plankton and fish. They provide valuable ecosystem services such as ecotourism. Conserving marine mammals provides significant economic,

3 webinars on how to design and manage a project to protect and finance a natural area

The Conservatoire du Littoral (French public agency involved in coastal conservation), the NGOs Small Island Organisation (SMILO) and Small Mediterranean Islands Initiative (PIM Initiative) are organising during the autumn of 2021 a serie of three webinar-trainings on fundraising and project conception and implementation. These web-trainings will be primarily