Story | 12 Oct, 2017
Invitation: Marine Plastics Need European Action, 8 November 2017
Plastic waste is increasingly impacting the marine environment and becoming one of the most challenging issues for global and European marine and coastal species and ecosystems. The IUCN Regional European Office and Ricardo Serrão Santos, Member of the European Parliament, are hosting an event…
Story | 11 Oct, 2017
What are the perceptions about posidonia banquettes on Mediterranean beaches?
It has been a busy summer for POSBEMED project team! The IUCN Centre for Mediterranean Cooperation and project partners have been conducting surveys on Mediterranean beaches among beach users, tourist operators and beach managers in Spain, Cyprus, Greece, France and Italy. The collected…
Story | 05 Oct, 2017
Fisheries Sector in Tyre- Lebanon
Rapid market opportunity and value chain analysis for fisheries sector in Tyre - Lebanon infographics
Story | 06 Sep, 2017
Toward a regional MPA network and community to fight climate change impacts in the Mediterranean
Held every four years, IMPAC is a high quality international congress aiming to assist Marine Protected Areas (MPAs) managers and practitioners to exchange ideas and learn from each other, in order to effectively manage MPAs.
Story | 31 Aug, 2017
14th edition of the IUCN Global Marine and Polar Programme newsletter - September 2017
Story | 06 Jul, 2017
Strengthening community responses to whale & dolphin conservation
Whales, dolphins and propoises are arguably the best known and most commonly seen marine mammals; over 25 species are found in India. The size and pivotal position of marine cetaceans within food webs makes them ecologically important and a significant conservation concern. In recent years, the …
Story | 03 Jul, 2017
A first step towards sponges conservation in the Mediterranean
More than 300 experts attended the 10th World Sponge Conference held in the National University of Ireland, Galway from June 25th-30th to discuss the main areas in which sponge biology is developing at present, as well as traditional research categories.
Story | 26 Jun, 2017
Deep sea mining threatens unique marine life, experts warn
Gland, Switzerland, 26 June 2017 (IUCN) – Mining the deep ocean floor would inevitably lead to the loss of biodiversity, which cannot be compensated for through biodiversity offsets, 15 marine scientists and legal scholars argue in a letter published today in the journal Nature Geoscience.
Story | 12 Jun, 2017
Vegetarian feed one of the keys to sustainable fish farming – IUCN report
Making farmed fish more ‘vegetarian’ by feeding them terrestrial plants, algae, or other alternatives to feed made from wild fish will continue to reduce the environmental impact of the fast-growing fish farming sector, according to a new IUCN report
Story | 14 May, 2017
Report launched on the urgent need to protect parts of the Arctic including four in EU Overseas
New report on recomended Arctic Marine World Heritage sites includes four off the coast of Greenland