17 January, 2020
Mediterranean biodiversity interactions with marine litter: New knowledge base
ETC-UMA, 17 January 2020, Malaga – As the global production of plastics has grown exponentially since 1960s, huge quantities of marine litter can now be found in our oceans and seas. The Mediterranean Sea is not an exception. Despite the ...
4 December, 2019
ETC-UMA contribution to the SOER 2020: How is our landscape mosaic doing?
Featuring the contribution of ETC-UMA as part of ETC-ULS, the European Environment Agency has published today ‘The European environment — state and outlook 2020’ report #SOER2020. Overall environmental trends in Europe have not improved since the last EEA state of ...
12 November, 2019
MedBioLitter: an open database on marine litter and biodiversity science
Research efforts on marine litter are increasing our knowledge on the amount, composition and impacts on marine ecosystems, biodiversity and people. However, the number of studies is scattered and geographically unbalanced, making it difficult for policy makers, managers, the business ...
22 October, 2019
Malaga takes the pulse for transformative changes to protect Mediterranean ecosystems
The city of Malaga welcomed, 14-16 October 2019, an international three-days event on Biodiversity protection and management, gathering around 100 Mediterranean representatives to debate on effective collaboration mechanisms for more integrated management of our natural resources. Co-funded by the EU ...
26 September, 2019
Ecosystem-Based Adaptation: “A pulse for transformative changes in the Mediterranean Sea” (PANACeA Event). 14-16 October 2019, Malaga – Spain
BACKGROUND The Interreg Med Biodiversity Protection Community featured by the PANACeA project is organizing a three-day encounter to share and celebrate the three years of collaborative workachieved by this community to safeguard mechanisms and tools that support a more effective ...
4 March, 2019
Coordinated policies to safeguard wetland ecosystems urgently needed
Enhanced wetland monitoring, assessment and indicators to support European and global environmental policy is the title of the new report led by ETC-UMA in the framework of the SWOS project, a European Union funded project under the Horizon 2020 Framework ...
14 February, 2019
Mediterranean ecosystem-based management calls for private sector involvement
In the framework of the on-going collaboration between the Interreg Med Biodiversity Protection Community led by European Topic Centre of the University of Malaga (ETC-UMA) and the Secretariat of the Union for the Mediterranean (UfMS), a new report has been ...
19 December, 2018
From Malaga to the Mediterranean – Highlights Winter 2018
With an ecosystem based approach to marine and terrestrial biodiversity protection and management, the ETC-UMA has been working hard with the organization of several events across the Mediterranean, including our latest workshop and public hearing at the European Parliament on ...