9 April, 2026

New Factsheet: Selecting the Right Management Evaluation Tool for Marine Protected Areas

A wide range of tools is currently available to assess the management effectiveness of Marine Protected Areas (MPAs). This can make the selection process complex for practitioners. To support MPA managers in this task, ETC-UMA has developed a new factsheet ...

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 ...

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 ...

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., ...