IUCN has produced with the Spanish Institute of Oceanography and the Institute of Coastal Ecology the Seagrass Atlas of Spain. This Atlas is an important tool, which will help manage these fundamental ecosystems for marine biodiversity conservation and perform effective marine spatial planning. The presentation of the "Atlas of seagrasses of Spain" was made (...)
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The 19th Ordinary Meeting of the Contracting Parties to the Barcelona Convention hosted by the Hellenic Government, was held in Athens from 9 to 12 February 2016 with the participation of representatives of 21 Mediterranean countries and the European Union and other international organizations such IUCN, WWF, Oceana.
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As part of IUCN-Med's Conserving wild plants and habitats for people in the South and East Mediterranean (IPAMed) project, Dr. Karim Omar, environmental researcher and IUCN Red List Global Assessor, with the support of his team, has investigated environmental threats to the natural resources in two Egyptian Important (...)
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The IUCN Centre of Mediterranean Cooperation in collaboration with the IUCN Global Species Programme organised a 5-day workshop to establish an IUCN Red List of Monocotyledon Plants for the Mediterranean region. This workshop, the second out of three that was held in the framework of this initiative, hosted by the National and Kapodistrian University (...)
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As part of IUCN-Med's Conserving wild plants and habitats for people in the South and East Mediterranean (IPA Med) project, a kickoff workshop to launch the project's activities was held on January 18th and 19th 2016, at the Gouraya National-Park and Biosphere Reserve, to inform stakeholders about the objectives and the expected results of the project and to involve them in the different phases of its implementation.
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On this year's World Meteorological Day, the Territorial Delegation of Andalucía, Ceuta and Melilla Meteorological Agency (AEMET) invited the Centre for Mediterranean Cooperation to participate in the event with a presentation on the Challenges related to Climate Change in the Mediterranean. The event was chaired by the assistant government representative in Malaga, Miguel Briones Artacho.
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Three capacity building workshops were held during April 2016 in Morocco, Algeria and Tunisia in the framework of the programme "Small Initiatives for Civil Society Organisations in North Africa" (PPI-OSCAN, its acronym in French). These events which gathered the selected civil society organization (CSO) participating (...)
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As part of IUCN-Med's Conserving wild plants and habitats for people in the South and East Mediterranean (IPA Med) project, a visit of the Important Area for plant (IPA) of Jebel Bou Naceur was held from April 5th to 7th 2016, in Morocco.
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The IUCN Council has just validated the decision taken by its Bureau on January 29th and April 13th 2016 to approve the admission of 48 new Members. Eleven of them belong to the Mediterranean region. The IUCN Centre for Mediterranean Cooperation warmly welcomes these new Members in the Mediterranean region.
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We recently published the second and revamped issue of the IUCN-Plantlife IPAMed Network Newsletter. This issue highlights the lessons learnt from pilot Important Plant Areas in Egypt. It also contains an overview of initiatives that the IPAMed project is currently involved in, (...)
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