What we do

SAPBIO
Biodiversity in the Mediterranean The Mediterranean Sea is a marine biodiversity hotspot. Though it only covers 0.7% ...
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Specially Protected Areas
Les AMP de Méditerranée Les Aires marines protégées (AMP) ont démontré leur utilité pour la conservation du ...
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Climate 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 ...
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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 ...
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Action 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), ...
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Action 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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SPAMI
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
Background The population of the Mediterranean monk seal, Monachus monachus, have declined rapidly and ...
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Action Plan on Coralligenous & other Calcareous ...
Background Coralligenous concretions are the result of the building activities of various organisms, mainly calcareous ...
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