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24 January, 2023

Mediterranean ecosystem restoration sites

In the frame of its strategic activities in the Mediterranean region, ETC-UMA as coordinator of the Mediterranean Biodiversity Protection Community (MBPC) has joined the Task Force on Best Practices on Ecosystem Restoration and committed to use its network of practitioners ...
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21 November, 2022

Supporting cetacean conservation in the Pelagos Sanctuary

A new report has been presented today, 18 November 2022, online in the frame of the cooperation between the Pelagos Permanent Secretariat and the Mediterranean Biodiversity Protection Community (MBPC), a project led by ETC-UMA. The new report, entitled Pathways to ...
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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., ...