The layer shows type and location of pilot sites involved in FishMPABlue2 project. FishMPABlue2 is a Pilot Project + Capitalisation Project of the biodiversity protection community funded by the Interreg Med Programme. The FishMPAblue2 project deals with “Fishing governance in marine protected areas: potentialities for Blue Economy 2”. In this specific pilot site, scientifically sound monitoring of ecological, fishery techniques & socio-economic aspects related to management of small scale fisheries in MPAs are addressed.

The layer shows type and location of partners involved in WETNET project. WETNET is a Pilot Project of the biodiversity protection community funded by the Interreg Med Programme. The WETNET project deals with “Coordinated management and networking of Mediterranean wetlands”.

The layer shows type and location of partners involved in PHAROS4MPAs project. PHAROS4MPAs is a Capitalization Project of the biodiversity protection community funded by the Interreg Med Programme. The PHAROS4MPAs project deals with Blue Economy and Marine Conservation: Safeguarding Mediterranean MPAs in order to achieve Good Environmental Status.

Transborder Fix line transect are used to assess amount, composition, and spatial distribution of floating macro litter, bigger than 20 cm, along fixed trans-border transects in the Mediterranean basin. The transects, monitored all year round, cross the south east partof Ligurian Sea, Sardinian Balearic basin, Bonifacio Strait, Central Tyrrhenian Sea, Sicilian Sardinian Channels, Adriatic Sea , and Ionian Sea. The surveyed area en-compasses a large portion of the Mediterranean Sea and falls withinthree MSFD marine subregions: the Western Mediterranean Sea, theAdriatic Sea, the Ionian and Central Mediterranean Sea.

The layer shows type and location of partners involved in AMAre project. AMAre is a Study Project + Pilot Project of the biodiversity protection community funded by the Interreg Med Programme. The AMAre project deals with “Actions for marine protected areas”.

The Pan-Mediterranean wetland knowledge base builds on methods and approaches developed in the framework of on-going efforts at the Mediterranean scale to map wetland ecosystems and assess their condition. It is relevant for several on-going initiatives at a regional, European and global level (e.g. UN Decade on Ecosystem restoration, EU Biodiversity Strategy for 2030, the Barcelona Convention and its protocols on Integrated Coastal Zone Management and Specially Protected Areas). As part of these efforts, ETC-UMA produced an assessment that targets the distribution, state and trends of pressures and impacts on key animal and plant biodiversity hosted by wetland habitats in the Mediterranean region. The assessment of wetland biodiversity conditions aims to complement existing knowledge and address the lack of readily available spatially-explicit information on the areas where biodiversity unique to the Mediterranean occurs, and where endemic biodiversity is most threatened, using data from The Red List of Threatened Species™ of the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN). For the threatened species analysis, only species categorised in the IUCN Red List as Critically Endangered (CR), Endangered (EN) and Vulnerable (VU) were considered. The goal is to highlight priority areas for potential conservation actions in the region, and to support the regional efforts in advocating for effective wetland management and nature-based solutions in the Mediterranean region.

The Pan-Mediterranean wetland knowledge base builds on methods and approaches developed in the framework of on-going efforts at the Mediterranean scale to map wetland ecosystems and assess their condition. It is relevant for several on-going initiatives at a regional, European and global level (e.g. UN Decade on Ecosystem restoration, EU Biodiversity Strategy for 2030, the Barcelona Convention and its protocols on Integrated Coastal Zone Management and Specially Protected Areas). As part of these efforts, ETC-UMA produced an assessment that targets the distribution, state and trends of pressures and impacts on key animal and plant biodiversity hosted by wetland habitats in the Mediterranean region. The assessment of wetland biodiversity conditions aims to complement existing knowledge and address the lack of readily available spatially-explicit information on the areas where biodiversity unique to the Mediterranean occurs, and where endemic biodiversity is most threatened, using data from The Red List of Threatened Species™ of the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN). For the threatened species analysis, only species categorised in the IUCN Red List as Critically Endangered (CR), Endangered (EN) and Vulnerable (VU) were considered. The goal is to highlight priority areas for potential conservation actions in the region, and to support the regional efforts in advocating for effective wetland management and nature-based solutions in the Mediterranean region.

A new report produced by the Interreg Med ACT4LITTER project reveals that marine litter is building up in what should be pristine coastal and marine protected areas. Wanting to dig deeper into the amounts, types and sources of marine litter deposited on the beaches of coastal and marine protected areas in the Mediterranean, the project set up a participatory-science campaign entitled ACT4LITTER Marine Litter Watch Month and assessed beach litter in a large number of locations in a consistent and harmonised way. The results and findings provide fit-for-purpose data for the effective management of marine litter in Mediterranean coastal and marine protected areas. Data of the marine litter campaign are referred to the winter edition, from mid Dec. 2017 till mid Jan.2018.