Emilie Grimaud

The MedFund is launching the 1st Call for Interest Dedicated to Highly Protected Marine Areas in the Mediterranean – Deadline: 31 January 2022

The Mediterranean Sea is threatened by numerous anthropogenic pressures which lead to the degradation of ecosystems, a significant drop in fishery resources – 85% of stocks are overfished – and a decline of emblematic species, such as the monk seal

Brijuni National Park Receives Blue Park Award and Joins Growing Global Marine Conservation Network

MedPAN is proud to announce that Brijuni National Park, member of the network since 2010, makes history as the world’s newest Blue Park. Marine Conservation Institute has honored Brijuni with a gold level Blue Park Award for achieving the highest

Towards a conservation strategy and action plan for Mediterranean islands – The Mediterranean Islands Collective Project

What synergies can be found between stakeholders working for the conservation of island biodiversity? How can we draw inspiration from the small actions being carried out on islands across the Mediterranean for the conservation of endemic species or achieve economical

Highly restricted dispersal in habitat-forming seaweed may impede natural recovery of disturbed populations

Cystoseira senu lato forests play a central role in marine Mediterranean ecosystems. Over the last decades, Cystoseira s. l. suffered from a severe loss as a result of multiple anthropogenic stressors. In particular, Gongolaria barbata has faced multiple human-induced threats,

Performance of a baited underwater video system vs. the underwater visual census technique in assessing the structure of fish assemblages in a Mediterranean marine protected area

Accurate, rapid, and cost-effective fish assemblage monitoring is fundamental to marine protected areas (MPA) management as a pivotal tool to verify whether and t what extent MPA conservation objectives have been achieved and to redefine these objectives in the framework

Toward a recovery of the pen shell Pinna nobilis in the French Mediterranean open sea?

Populations of Pinna nobilis have been declining in French coasts for many years, mainly due to anthropogenic impacts such as pollution, boat mooring, trawling and the artificialization of the coastline. Already considered as vulnerable species, a mass mortality event has

A practical novel assessment tool for the socio-ecological condition of protected areas: the protection level index (PLI)

Protected area (PA) managers and policy makers need to determine and demonstrate the effectiveness of PA management and keep track of the conservation status in ways that are practical, scientifically sound and comparable among PAs in various terrestrial and aquatic

New records of scleractinian cold-water corals (CWC) assemblages in the southern Tyrrhenian Sea (western Mediterranean Sea): Human impacts and conservation prospects

Scleractinian cold-water corals (CWCs) are among the main habitat engineers of the deep Mediterranean Sea, hosting a high diversity and playing a significant ecological role. In the last two decades, many new living scleractinian CWC sites throughout the Mediterranean Basin

Ecosystem approach to fisheries management works – How switching from mobile to static fishing gear improves populations of fished and non-fished species inside a marine protected area

Lyme Bay marine protected area (MPA) is the UK’s first and largest example of an ambitious, whole-site approach to management, to recover and protect reef biodiversity. The whole-site approach applies consistent management, in this case excluding bottom towed fishing, across

Active ecological restoration of cold-water corals: techniques, challenges, costs and future directions

Cold-water corals (CWC) habitats dwell on continental shelves, slopes, seamounts, and ridge systems around the world’s oceans from 50 to 4000 m depth, providing heterogeneous habitats which support a myriad of associated fauna. These highly diverse ecosystems are threatened by

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