External workshop
ASCOBANS Workshop on Management of MPAs for Small Cetaceans
May 18, 2021
External workshop
ASCOBANS Workshop on Management of MPAs for Small Cetaceans
Start date: May 18, 2021 12:00 AM
End date: May 18, 2021
Place: Online
Address:
What is ASCOBANS?
ASCOBANS was concluded in 1991 as the Agreement on the Conservation of Small Cetaceans of the Baltic and North Seas (ASCOBANS) under the auspices of the Convention on Migratory Species (CMS or Bonn Convention) and entered into force in 1994. To know more about it.
Description
The Workshop on Management of Marine Protected Areas (MPAs) for Small Cetaceans was postponed from April 2020 owing to COVID-19 pandemic.
The workshop was going ahead online, on 18 May and 7-9 June 2021.
Ida Carlén, CCB Biodiversity Officer attended the event.
The workshop, mandated by the 25th Meeting of the ASCOBANS Advisory Committee, was jointly organized by the Finnish Ministry of the Environment, WWF Germany, WWF Sweden, Coalition Clean Baltic, and ASCOBANS.
The workshop aims to review and share experiences on best practice approaches to MPA management, taking them beyond being merely 'paper parks', in order to make recommendations to ASCOBANS Parties. The workshop was highly interactive and led by a facilitator. The objectives were to:
Due to limited seats, participation to the workshop was by invitation only. Nominations were sought from ASCOBANS National Coordinators early 2020.
Contact person: ascobans.secretariat@ascobans.org .
To read the provisional programme of the workshop.
The workshop was going ahead online, on 18 May and 7-9 June 2021.
Ida Carlén, CCB Biodiversity Officer attended the event.
The workshop, mandated by the 25th Meeting of the ASCOBANS Advisory Committee, was jointly organized by the Finnish Ministry of the Environment, WWF Germany, WWF Sweden, Coalition Clean Baltic, and ASCOBANS.
The workshop aims to review and share experiences on best practice approaches to MPA management, taking them beyond being merely 'paper parks', in order to make recommendations to ASCOBANS Parties. The workshop was highly interactive and led by a facilitator. The objectives were to:
- Discuss and make recommendations on criteria and clear options for well-formulated conservation objectives for small cetacean MPAs, and
- Discuss and make recommendations on a toolbox of ambitious and innovative practical conservation measures for small cetacean MPAs
Due to limited seats, participation to the workshop was by invitation only. Nominations were sought from ASCOBANS National Coordinators early 2020.
Contact person: ascobans.secretariat@ascobans.org .
To read the provisional programme of the workshop.