On 12 January 2022, the ETC-UMA Director, Dr. Dania Abdul Malak, signed the petition by the Citizen’s Movement for the Nature Park of Sierra de Mijas-Alpujata collecting support for the designation of over 29,000 has of mid-mountain natural and semi-natural habitats as new Nature Park in the Malaga province, Andalusia, in Southern Spain. Home to 135 bird species, 36 species …
The past months have witnessed a very active agenda for the European Topic Centre on Spatial Analysis and Synthesis (ETC-UMA) to assist in the coordination of international efforts towards transboundary conservation and more effective protection of the Mediterranean biodiversity and its ecosystems. ETC-UMA partnered with several organisations to support the organisation of the Mediterranean Marine Protected Areas Forum (MPA Forum) …
The project ENSERES (ENhancing Socio-Ecological RESilience in Mediterranean coastal areas) funded by the European Union under the Euro-Mediterranean cooperation program ENI CBC Med, has kicked off in Malaga bringing together international organizations engaged in research, environmental protection, and public authorities from five countries to start the work plan for the next 24 months, until September 2023. After more than ten …
The new report developed by the ETC-UMA (University of Malaga), as partner of the European Topic Centre on Urban, Land and Soil Systems (ETC/ULS) has shed light on the role of healthy wetland habitats in the carbon cycle and the ways European instruments report and consider them. Entitled “Carbon pools and sequestration potential of wetlands in the European Union”, this …
On World Nature Conservation Day, the ETC-UMA team wants to wish you a happy summer surrounded by nature and friends. Wherever you are, be part of the healthy ecosystem you want around you and have a positive impact. Here are some tips to combat marine litter (provided by the MBPC project):
The Mediterranean Biodiversity Protection Community (MBPC) project co-funded by the Interreg Med programme and led by ETC-UMA has just finalised an online workshop on ” Managing Transboundary priority areas: Towards a governance mechanism on the conservation of the South-Adriatic marine ecosystem” in collaboration with the Marine Institute in Croatia. For two days, Albania, Croatia, Italy, Montenegro and Slovenia representatives together with key …
ETC-UMA is pleased and honoured to have been awarded the European’s Commission certificate of participation at the EU Green Week 2021 for the organization and leadership in the organization of the online workshop on “Mediterranean pollution, biodiversity and health”. This year’s edition of the EU Green Week, Europe’s most important environmental event, was dedicated to the topic of zero pollution. …
The ETC-UMA is looking for a motivated and professional company to support the updating of its online data management and visualization capacity to integrate the knowledge and spatial data generated by various projects and initiatives. Building on the current resources platform online, the selected applicant will get engaged in the planning and deployment of data management and visualization features of …
On the occasion of the 15th National Congress on the Environment (Conama), 19 national and European projects tackling marine litter were invited to present their work at the webinar held on Wednesday 28 April 2021 to an audience of around 70 participants. The Mediterranean Biodiversity Protection Community project and its open database and spatial geoportal, MedBioLitter, on current scientific knowledge …
Building on the expertise gathered over the past 10 years by the research team at ETC-UMA on environmental protection and cooperation, a meeting of Andalusian and other Spanish regional institutions involved in conservation and protection was held in March 2021 to exchange experiences and join forces towards better protection and management of the scarce natural coastal areas in Malaga, where …
