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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Post-2020 SAPBIO
The Strategic Action Programme for the Conservation of Biological Diversity in the Mediterranean region (SAPBIO) was ...
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Ecosystem Approach (EcAp)
The Barcelona Convention and the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) define the ecosystem approach as “a ...
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Climate change & biodiversity
The impacts of climate change are extremely varied, and their effects back up and amplify one another. Climate change ...
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Coastal Areas Management
The Coastal Area Management Programme (CAMP) provides a framework for demonstration/pilot projects in selected ...
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Action Plan on Cartilaginous Fishes
The group of cartilaginous fish, such as sharks, rays and chimera (classified under chondrichthyan fish) of the ...
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Action Plan on marine and coastal birds
In 1995, the Contracting Parties of the Barcelona Convention adopted a new protocol concerning the Specially Protected ...
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Action Plan on Cetaceans
The Cetacean populations regularly present in the Mediterranean Sea and Contiguous Atlantic area are made of 11 ...
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Action Plan on Dark Habitats
Dark habitats are environments where the luminosity is extremely weak, or even absent (aphotic area), leading to an ...
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Action Plan on Marine Turtles
Marine turtles are reptiles and reptiles evolved on land. Though they have adapted well to living in the sea, their ...
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Specially Protected Areas of Mediterranean Importance
The Protocol concerning Specially Protected Areas and Biological Diversity in the Mediterranean (SPA/BD Protocol) ...
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Strategy and Action Plan on Monk Seal
The population of the Mediterranean monk seal, Monachus monachus, have declined rapidly and drastically during the ...
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