magali – MedPAN

A web agency for MedPAN’s new site…

MedPAN, the network of Marine Protected Areas (MPA) managers in the Mediterranean, wants to redesign its website and integrate a geolocalised database of Mediterranean MPAs. For this, MedPAN launches today a call for tender to select the provider who will

MedPAN is looking for its new Scientific Manager

Chloe, our beloved Scientific Manager since 2011, has decided to embark on new professional adventures, so MedPAN is looking for her successor for a start in September 2018. Here is the job description: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1A_kNraTKIoO4igRFJbCWgwQyrN3i7EJk/view. Deadline to submit application : 13

The Calanques National Park tests an ecotourism package for the first time

The DestiMED project brings together 13 marine and coastal protected areas to develop, manage and collectively promote ecotourism throughout the Mediterranean region. In France, the Calanques National Park was selected in 2017 to integrate the DestiMED park network and develop

Heads-up! Call for communications and questionnaire on MPAs and fisheries soon to be in a mailbox near you…

In 2018 the MedPAN network will focus on fisheries management in MPAs. A number of activities will be carried out under this topic, within the framework of a large project funded by the MAVA foundation and the FishMPABlue2 Interreg MED

Small scale fishers and MPA Managers in the Mediterranean: alliances for the sustainability of the resource and the profession

Jijel, Algeria, February 2018: around 15 small scale fishers from 8 Mediterranean countries have joined Marine Protected Area (MPA) managers to discuss how to better manage the marine space together. Organised on the initiative of the MedPAN network, this meeting

PHAROS4MPAs: add your marine conservation voice to the blue growth choir!

The current “blue growth” trend in the Mediterranean Sea is accelerating at a pace of near unsustainability and there is an urgent need for an integrated ocean management approach throughout the whole basin, to ensure the conservation of its unique

ACCOBAMS call for proposal: drones and cetaceans

ACCOBAMS Secretariat is launching a call for proposals, within the framework of the ACCOBAMS Survey Initiative (ASI) project, in order to conduct a feasibility study on the potential of using drones for collecting data on cetacean distribution and abundance in

Monaco Ocean Week: M2PA in the spotlight

The Prince Albert II of Monaco Foundation and its partners are organising the second edition of the Monaco Ocean Week, from 8 to 14 April 2018. Intended to find solutions to protect the marine environment, especially in the face of

MPAnews features MedPAN and other regional MPA managers networks

MPAnews has on a review of the much needed MPA managers networks around the world. It just published the second part of this analysis focusing on regional MPA networks: Challenges, successes, and lessons from building effective MPA manager networks: part

Vote for Spanish marine conservation efforts!

Author: Fundación Biodiversidad & MedPAN The LIFE INDEMARES project has enabled Spain to increase its marine protected surface from 1% to 8% of its waters. Twenty two designations were put in place in the Mediterranean sea. Fundación Biodiversidad applied for

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