External workshop
Second HELCOM Marine Protected Areas Management workshop
September 9, 2019
External workshop
Second HELCOM Marine Protected Areas Management workshop
Start date: September 9, 2019 2:00 PM
End date: September 12, 2019
Place: Archipelago house Varppi, Västerö, Maxmo, outside of Vaasa in Finland
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What is HELCOM?
The Baltic Marine Environment Protection Commission – also known as the Helsinki Commission (HELCOM) – is an intergovernmental organization (IGO) and a regional sea convention in the Baltic Sea area. HELCOM was established about four decades ago to protect the marine environment of the Baltic Sea from all sources of pollution through intergovernmental cooperation. The HELCOM Secretariat is located in Helsinki, Finland. To know more about it.
Description
The workshop took place on 9-12 September in the Archipelago house Varppi, Västerö, Maxmo, outside of Vaasa in Finland.
The purpose of the second HELCOM MPA managers workshop was to pick up on the topics the managers themselves identified as most challenging in the 2018 workshop and which would, in turn, have the most added benefit from transboundary sharing of experiences and regional level support.
Based on this the second workshop focused on stakeholder interaction within the MPA management process. It also touched on other identified topics such as communication and awareness rising, e.g. how to communicate the value and importance of conservation and conservation objectives to a wide audience.
The purpose of the second HELCOM MPA managers workshop was to pick up on the topics the managers themselves identified as most challenging in the 2018 workshop and which would, in turn, have the most added benefit from transboundary sharing of experiences and regional level support.
Based on this the second workshop focused on stakeholder interaction within the MPA management process. It also touched on other identified topics such as communication and awareness rising, e.g. how to communicate the value and importance of conservation and conservation objectives to a wide audience.