11 November, 2022
Mediterranean biodiversity challenges : acting against marine litter – November 16
This session will look into ongoing efforts to address the impacts of marine litter on Mediterranean ecosystems. The panel will engage representatives from the worlds of science, policy and practice to debate over the knowledge available and gaps remaining to ...
1 November, 2022
The Mediterranean leading the way: A cooperative framework to strengthen area-based nature conservation actions
The Interreg Mediterranean Biodiversity Protection Community (MBPC) is organising a three day interactive event to share the results of several years of work including tools, experiences, lessons learnt and best practices from the community that will contribute to regional biodiversity ...
1 November, 2022
An assessment of marine biodiversity protection in the Mediterranean Sea: A threatened global biodiversity hotspot
The Mediterranean Sea is a World’s biodiversity hotspot. It harbours around 11% of all marine species in less than 1% of the global marine area (Bianchi & Morri, 2000). Furthermore, around 20% of those species are endemic (Coll et al., ...
30 October, 2022
New Mediterranean forest heroes proclaimed
As part of the ERDF funded ENBIC2LAB project to develop an Environmental and Biodiversity Climate Change Lab for the integration of Big Data Analysis and Artificial Intelligence for the service of environmental protection, a validation hackathon led by ETC-UMA in ...
11 October, 2022
New Mediterranean forest heroes to be announced
As part of the ERDF funded ENBIC2LAB project to develop an Environmental and Biodiversity Climate Change Lab through the integration of databases and services related to water, soil, air, fauna and flora, a validation hackathon led by ETC-UMA in July ...
23 September, 2022
The ETC-UMA strenghtens its collaboration in biodiversity conservation in Madagascar
In the framework of the current scientific and education cooperation agreement between the University of Malaga and Madagascar National Parks, researchers from both institutions have joined contributors from the University of Antananarive and the Wildlife Conservation Society to produce a ...
23 September, 2022
The ETC-UMA leads a global study on the ecological effectiveness of protected areas
Researchers from the ETC-UMA and the Spanish Research Council (CSIC) have led a study on the effectiveness of existing protected areas at conserving the diversity of genes, species and ecosystems on land and at sea. The publication synthetises the main ...
29 June, 2022
Mediterranean wetlands – their current state and ways to improve their conservation
The recent report entitled “Mapping and assessment of the state of wetland ecosystems: a Mediterranean perspective” led by ETC-UMA, in the frame of the Mediterranean Biodiversity Protection Community initiative co-funded by the EU Interreg Mediterranean programme, is the result of ...