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.

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 POSBEMED project. POSBEMED is a Study Project of the biodiversity protection community funded by the Interreg Med Programme. The POSBEMED project deals with “Sustainable management of the systems Posidonia-beaches in the Mediterranean region”.

The layer shows type and location of pilot sites involved in EcoSustain project. EcosSustain is a Pilot Project of the biodiversity protection community funded by the Interreg Med Programme. The EcoSustain project deals with “Ecological sustainable Governance of Mediterranean protected areas via improved scientific, technical and managerial knowledge base”.

The layer shows type and location of partners involved in PANACeA project. PANACeA is an Horizontal Project of the biodiversity protection community funded by the Interreg Med Programme. The PANACeA MPAs project deals with streamlining networking and management efforts in Mediterranean protected areas for enhanced natural conservation and protection.

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". In this specific pilot site, testing of a governance tool (Wetland Contract) for protected wetland management are addressed. Wetlands in Europa are vulnerable interconnected environments, with important contributions to biodiversity. Their protection intertwines scientific-environmental aspects and governance concerns. WETNET tackles the issue of implementing multilevel governance for MED wetlands in order to improve wetlands ecosystem and their surrounding local systems. The project aims at ensuring higher coordination between different levels of spatial planning and authorities in charge of their management, whilst limiting conflicts between conservation issues and economic activities. By defining common priorities for MED wetlands conservation, WETNET seeks to test and transfer ‘Wetlands Contracts’, acting through broad participatory procees where users, private and public entities are committed in mainstreaming wetland conservation into their daily activities. This project aims to: • Increase the knowledge of Wetlands Contracts effectiveness; • Strengthen existing transnational networks for sharing and disseminating information and good practices on wetlands conservation, The project partnetship involves all authorities and typology of stakeholders operating in the target field. It will allow WETNET to meet the wetlands needs at abroad scale, ensuring the transferability of its results to other EU countries. This data shows type and location of the partners involved in the project.

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.