by thomaisv | Apr 28, 2017 | News
Are you a junior officer in a Biosphere Reserve (BR) of the MAB/UNESCO programme of a European or Mediterranean country? Or, have you recently graduated from a relevant university discipline and wish to be further trained on Integrated Management Approaches within a...
by thomaisv | Apr 27, 2017 | News
The Ministers and other Heads of Delegations attending the Union for the Mediterranean (UfM) Ministerial Meeting on Water in Malta on 27 April 2017 agreed on a new ‘Water Agenda’ for the region. MIO-ECSDE Treasurer, Vincent Attard of Nature Trust Malta...
by thomaisv | Apr 5, 2017 | News
MIO-ECSDE Programme Officer Thomais Vlachogianni was one of the invited speakers at the 2-day meeting of the Ecosystem Approach Correspondence Group on Marine Litter Monitoring (CORMON) held in Madrid from 28 February to 1 March 2017. She presented the accumulated...
by thomaisv | Mar 10, 2017 | News
Proper monitoring of our coasts and seas is an important contribution to keeping them litter-free. Therefore, MIO-ECSDE produced a video tutorial on how to monitor marine litter on beaches and a self-paced distance learning module on how to monitor marine litter on...
by thomaisv | Mar 3, 2017 | News
Marine litter has been acknowledged as a major threat in many Mediterranean Marine Protected Areas (MPAs) hampering the achievement of their conservation goals and MPA Managers lack the tools and knowledge to effectively address the issue at their level and prevent...
by thomaisv | Feb 10, 2017 | News
Marine litter is a major environmental problem for the Adriatic and Ionian Seas, according to the recent marine litter assessment report released by the IPA-Adriatic funded DeFishGear project. Some 33-39% of the relatively high amounts of litter found on beaches, the...
-1.svg){kind=logo}