by thomaisv | Mar 22, 2018 | News
With sorrow in our hearts we bid adieu to our beloved Member of the Executive Bureau. Nacer Riad, being at the helm of the Ecological Association of Boumerdes, has been representing the Algerian membership for more than a decade enriching the meeting and overall governance with his knowledge, wit, frankness, enthusiasm and honesty. He will be sorely missed.
by thomaisv | Mar 21, 2018 | News
Are you a manager of a coastal and marine protected area or a marine litter practitioner? Are you interested in filling in the ‘data gaps’ that hamper an effective implementation of essential measures to address the growing threat of marine litter in Med coastal and...
by thomaisv | Mar 21, 2018 | News
Marine litter is ‘building up’ in what should be pristine coastal and marine protected areas of the Mediterranean, according to the preliminary results of the ACT4LITTER Marine Litter Watch Month. More than one fourth of the twenty two beaches surveyed were...
by thomaisv | Dec 27, 2017 | News
The deliberations of the 20th Meeting of the Contracting Parties to the Barcelona Convention (COP20) spanned over four days from 17-20 December 2017 in Tirana, Albania. More than 150 delegates from the 21 Mediterranean countries and the European Union that are parties...
by thomaisv | Dec 20, 2017 | News
The marine litter threat in the Mediterranean and the ongoing concrete efforts to reduce its adverse effects towards good environmental status in the coastal and marine environment were in focus at the Barcelona Convention COP20 side event organized by MIO-ECSDE....
by thomaisv | Dec 1, 2017 | News
Some 120 MPA managers and other stakeholders from all shores of the Mediterranean came together at the mid-term conference of the ACT4LITTER project, an Interreg Med Programme project funded by the European Union that aims to facilitate efforts for tackling marine litter…