The 17^th annual marine mammal necropsy workshop is organized by the Department of Veterinary Pathology (University of Liege, Belgium), in collaboration with the Laboratory of Applied Bioacoustics LAB (Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Spain), the UMS Pelagis, Centre de Recherche sur les Mammifères Marins (University of La Rochelle, France), Institute for Terrestrial and Aquatic Wildlife Research, University of Veterinary Medicine Hannover (Germany) and the department of Comparative Biomedicine and Food Science, (University of Padova, Italy).

The main goal of this workshop is to train experts biologists and veterinarians on the European Best Practice Document on cetaceans postmortem investigations and tissue sampling in order to gain information on possible threats for marine mammals conservation.

The number of attendees is limited to 20, in order to pair off participants under the supervision of experts in marine mammals post-mortem.

Registration fees are 240 euro and deadline for registration is May 10, 2024 by email to Thierry Jauniaux: t.jauniaux@uliege.be.

More information available here.

The workshop on ingested marine litter monitoring and entanglement evidence in the ACCOBAMS area was convened on the 6 & 7 April 2024 in Catania, Italy. The main objective was to improve the collection of relevant data, especially from stranded cetaceans, with a specific focus on identifying best practice related to monitoring ingested marine litter and entanglement evidences in the ACCOBAMS Area.

Recommendations issued from the workshop are available for download here.