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Coastal Areas Management
The Coastal Area Management Programme (CAMP) provides a framework for demonstration/pilot projects in selected Mediterranean coastal areas to demonstrate the application of Integrated Coastal Zone ...
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Marine Turtles project
title Conservation of marine turtles in the Mediterranean Region. Total duration: Execution: SPA/RAC coordinates the implementation of the project's activities with the following partners: ...
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Action Plan on Cetaceans
Background The Cetacean populations regularly present in the Mediterranean Sea and Contiguous Atlantic area are made of 11 species. Since the early 90s, the Contracting Parties to the Barcelona ...
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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 the Mediterranean is relatively diverse. Most of its species have commercial ...
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sub-regional training session 1-2 November 2018 at the ...
SPA/RAC has organized in collaboration with INDICIT Project a sub-regional training session on 1st and 2nd November 2018 at the rescue centre of sea turtle (INSTM), in Monastir, Tunisia.
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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 sea, their ties to their ancestors, leads them back to land to lay their eggs and ...
See moreAction Plan on marine and coastal birds
Background In 1995, the Contracting Parties of the Barcelona Convention adopted a new protocol concerning the Specially Protected Areas and Biological Diversity in the Mediterranean (SPA/BD ...
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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), leading to an absence of macroscopic autochthonous photosynthesis. These habitats are ...
See moreAction Plan on Coralligenous & other Calcareous ...
Background Coralligenous concretions are the result of the building activities of various organisms, mainly calcareous algae that grow in dim light conditions, and the physical as well as biological ...
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