Guida all'identificazione delle specie vulnerabili oggetto di catture accidentali della pesca nel Mediterraneo

The coastal zone of West Africa extends approx. 6,000 km, from Mauritania in the north, passing through the deeply indented coasts of the islands and estuaries, then the lagoon coasts and the coastal strips of the Gulf of Guinea, up to Nigeria. The small island state of the Cabo Verde Islands, volcanic and mountainous, completes this geography. These coastal areas are characterized by globally significant biodiversity. But the marine ecosystem and coastal communities face many challenges, namely illegal, unreported and/or unregulated fishing, pollution, uncontrolled coastal development, etc., which harm habitats and species. This report takes stock of the situation, while offering in-depth analyses as well as recommendations on the opportunities and challenges in terms of marine protected areas in the region.

Between 2013-2016, a series of shark-human interactions occurred on the coast of New South Wales (NSW), Australia, that led to a number of surfer fatalities. This situation triggered significant community concern, attracting international media attention and calls for shark culling.

In 2015, the NSW Government commissioned an independent review, led by Cardno, an environmental consulting services company, to investigate new and emerging technologies to mitigate shark-human interactions. This review was followed by a stakeholder summit held at Taronga Zoo in Sydney, and included shark experts from across the globe, to determine the technologies to be trialled in NSW waters. This led the NSW Government to develop the NSW Shark Management Strategy (SMS), 2015-2020.

Prior to the Shark Management Strategy (SMS), the NSW Government responded to serious and fatal shark incidents solely in accordance with its Shark Incident Response Plan, whereby the focus was to catch and euthanise the shark thought responsible for the incident. The SMS, however, saw a shift to catch, tag and release sharks from the area of the incident. It also provided an opportunity to focus more on the human part of the shark-human interaction through research and the establishment of a dedicated community and stakeholder engagement team, and a process by which that team could support those affected by shark incidents. This case study will focus on the development of the community engagement team and the process that takes place after a serious or fatal shark incident in NSW.

This document reports on a project for the co-management and valorization of fisheries resources, carried out by IUCN Guinea-Bissau since 1991 (Rio Grande de Buba region). It aims to provide a summary analysis of the approach taken by the project and its achievements, in order to provide a set of guidelines and lessons learned which will enable replication of the project in other sites.

The Mediterranean Experience of Ecotourism (MEET) Network is an association of Protected Areas based in the Mediterranean Basin that is dedicated to strengthening conditions for the region to become an internationally recognised ecotourism destination. Formally established in 2018, MEET is born out of two EU-projects which ran from 2013. Through these projects the association has established a unique approach to ecotourism development that embraces local, cultural and natural values in Mediterranean Protected Areas. The MEET approach encourages public and private stakeholders from the conservation and tourism sectors to work together and build ecotourism products that put the Protected Area at the heart of the ecotourism experience and benefit local communities.
 

Over the last 5 years, more than 40 Mediterranean Protected Areas have tried and tested this approach with MEET´s hands-on support, providing essential capacity building, advocacy and development tools to ensure successful results.

Las brechas a las que se enfrentan las mujeres para ejercer plenamente sus derechos y vivir una vida libre de violencia son obstáculos para alcanzar la dignidad, la seguridad y el bienestar en las comunidades. Cerrar estas brechas es una condición necesaria para lograr el desarrollo y el uso sostenible de los recursos. Este Manual ha sido diseñado con el propósito de facilitar procesos locales de capacitación que conduzcan a identificar las manifestaciones de la violencia de género, reflexionar sobre sus impactos y adoptar compromisos de cambio a nivel personal, familiar y organizacional en las zonas marino-costeras (especialmente entornos de pesca artesanal).

Being defined as the “combined works of nature and of man”, cultural landscapes focus on sustainable land-use techniques, where the local population take into consideration the limits of the natural environment. They constitute a traditional form of land-use that are beneficial for the biological diversity and the cultural diversity for human well-being. They constitute an important landscape in the Mediterranean region, but have long been studied both by social  and natural scientists from different perspectives. This report tries to combine the existing literature dealing with the environmental and socio-cultural aspects of cultural landscapes, focusing on the Mediterranean region.