First FlashNews 2008
Send date : 2008-11-14 13:11:03

Hello [FIRSTNAME],
Hereinafter the latest news posted on the website of RAC/SPA, the Regional Activity Centre for Specially Protected Areas. If you wish to publish information on the RAC/SPA website, please do not hesitate to contact us.

NEWS

Enrichment of RAC/SPA website by a Mediterranean bibliographic database on:

Clilmate Changes,
Coralligenous, and
Marine Protected Areas (MPAs).

IN SHORT

RAC/SPA : An active actor in the Project “Strategic Partnership for the Mediterranean Sea Large Marine Ecosystem”
RAC/SPA leading a Project for “the identification of SPAMIs in the Mediterranean areas beyond national jurisdiction”
RAC/SPA is creating a working group on the sustainable use of biodiversity and the evaluation of direct and indirect threats due to climate changes
Population monitoring of the Lesser Crested Tern Sterna bengalensis in Libya
New guidelines to design legislation and regulations for conservation and management of cartilaginous fish
Results of the experts working group meeting for the conservation of Chondrycthyan fishes of Slovenia, Croatia, Bosnia and Montenegro
RAC/SPA: A partner to the organization of the First GloBallast Regional Task Force Meeting
Research cruise for the observation and identification of cetaceans and the determination of their distributions in the Eastern Mediterranean
RAC/SPA contributed to the Seventh European Seminar on biology and conservation of marine mammals.

AGENDA

RAC/SPA in the IUCN World Conservation Forum (Barcelona, Spain, 5-10 October 2008),
Third Mediterranean Conference on Marine Turtles (Hammamet, Tunisia 20-23 October 2008),
Sub-regional working meetings on vulnerability and impacts of climate change on marine and coastal biodiversity in the Mediterranean region
- Adriatic region (Split, Croatia, 22-25 October 2008),
- Middle East and North Africa (Tunis, Tunisia, 27-30 October 2008),
- Mediterranean European countries (Alicante, Spain , 9-13 November 2008),

RAC/SPA contributing to the GloBallast Training Course on Port Baseline Surveys (Gebze,Turkey, 21-24 October 2008),
The First Mediterranean Symposium on the Coralligenous (Tabarka, Tunisia, 14-16 January 2009).

ZOOM

Proceedings of the First Conference of the Mediterranean Marine Protected Areas Network (01- 02 - 03)
Final report on a fourth winter ornithological survey in Libya
Final Biodiversity report of the CAMP Cyprus

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