Event details

The theme of this 2nd International Conference will be the protection of endangered species and their threatened habitats, with a view to discussing actions which impact negatively, gaps, lessons learnt and to develop scenarios, contingency and precautionary approaches.

This venue will also be used as an opportunity to inform stakeholders, marine mammal scientists and the wider public about Caribbean’s environmental and marine conservation efforts and to promote the Agoa sanctuary for marine mammals in the French West Indies.

Background:

To share existing knowledge and lessons learnt between scientists and managers on the conservation of marine mammals, a first International Conference on Marine Mammal Protected Areas (ICMMPA) was organized at the Marine National Sanctuary for the Humpback Whales of Hawaii by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) in April 2009. This First International brought together 200 participants from 40 countries as part of the theme “Networks: Making Connections”.

The French Marine Protected Areas Agency (MPAA) is leading the effort to organize the Second International Conference on Marine Mammal Protected Areas.

The Marine Protected Areas Agency was created in 2006 and is headquartered in Brest. The agency is a French government public body and reports to the Ministry of Ecology and Sustainable Development. Its main remit is to support public policy for the creation and management of marine protected areas in France, coordinate the network of MPA managers, and manage the human, technical and financial resources dedicated to the marine nature parks that it is tasked with creating or other marine protected areas entrusted to it. The agency’s objectives include developing international action, notably by supporting the French State in its regional seas conventions undertakings (Caribbean, North-East Atlantic, Mediterranean, Indian Ocean, South Pacific and the Antarctic).

For more information, please download the flyer (including the programme) below. This program is temporary. Evolutions are still possible in particular in the order and the subjects of the workshops.

To register, please complete the registration form on the conference website: http://second.icmmpa.org/