What we do
POST-2020 Regional Strategy for MCPA and OECM
The Post-2020 Regional Strategy for marine and coastal protected areas and other effective area-based conservation ...
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The Strategic Action Programme for the Conservation of Biological Diversity in the Mediterranean region (SAPBIO) was ...
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Ecosystem Approach (EcAp)
Background The Barcelona Convention and the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) define the ecosystem approach as ...
See moreClimate change & biodiversity
Background The impacts of climate change are extremely varied, and their effects back up and amplify one another. ...
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Coastal Areas Management
The Coastal Area Management Programme (CAMP) provides a framework for demonstration/pilot projects in selected ...
See moreMediterranean Initiative on Taxonomy
The Mediterranean Initiative on Taxonomy was elaborated by RAC/SPA in collaboration with an ad hoc group of experts ...
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Action Plan on Cartilaginous Fishes
Background The group of cartilaginous fish, such as sharks, rays and chimera (classified under chondrichthyan fish) of ...
See moreAction Plan on marine and coastal birds
Background In 1995, the Contracting Parties of the Barcelona Convention adopted a new protocol concerning the ...
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Action Plan on Cetaceans
Background The Cetacean populations regularly present in the Mediterranean Sea and Contiguous Atlantic area are made ...
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Action Plan on Dark Habitats
Background Dark habitats are environments where the luminosity is extremely weak, or even absent (aphotic area), ...
See moreAction Plan on Marine Turtles
Background Marine turtles are reptiles and reptiles evolved on land. Though they have adapted well to living in the ...
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