Protected Areas
ACCOBAMS works on areas of special importance for cetaceans in the ACCOBAMS area, in order to propose appropriate threats management or spatial management measures. The identification is based on the overlapping of areas of interest for Marine Mammals (IMMAs) and mapping of anthropogenic threats.
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ACCOBAMS Resolutions:
Resolution 3.22 (2007): Marine Protected Areas for Cetaceans
Resolution 4.15 (2010): Marine Protected Areas of Importance for Cetacean Conservation
Resolution 6.24 (2016): New Areas of Conservation of Cetacean Habitats
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Workshop reports:
2017
“Inputs to the ACCOBAMS ongoing effort to map human threats on cetaceans in the Mediterranean and Black Seas”
Report issued from the 31st ECS Conference (30th April 2017, Middelfart, Denmark)
2022
“Cetacean Critical Habitats (CCH) Process”
This workshop was organised to enable the development of a final approach, an updated technical process and criteria for proposing areas as CCH to the Parties