Projects and Activities
ACCOBAMS SC11
The 11th meeting of the Scientific Committee of ACCOBAMS – the Agreement on the Conservation of Cetaceans in the Black Sea, Mediterranean Sea, and Contiguous Atlantic Area – took place in Monaco, last February 2017, with the aim to outline a three year-long plan (201- 2019) based on three strategic pillars: increase the knowledge of the status of cetaceans in the Area, reduce human pressure on them and enhance public awareness on their conservation.
In order to manage the plan’s objectives and priorities, the Committee has appointed 4 Task Managers with their relative support groups, called “correspondence groups” and organised in subject areas: 1) interaction with fisheries, 2) species conservation management plans, 3) functional stranding networks and responses to emergency situations, 4) protected areas for cetaceans.
IMMAs Workshop
The report of the 1st Regional Workshop for the Mediterranean Sea on the Important Marine Mammal Areas (IMMAs) has been recently published, which took place in Chania (Island of Crete, Greece) last October, and organised by the International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN).
The event for the Mediterranean area represented the first of a series of regional workshops that IUCN has planned by 2021 in five more areas of the globe: South Pacific, the Northeast Indian, the Northwest Indian and the Southeast Pacific oceans, and the waters of Oceania surrounding Australia and New Zealand.
MMO/PAM ACCOBAMS School
Last November, the Parties of ACCOBAMS – Agreement on the Conservation of Cetaceans in the Black Sea, Mediterranean Sea, and Contiguous Atlantic Area – approved an important Resolution establishing the ACCOBAMS International School for Marine Mammal Observers (MMO) and Passive Acoustic Monitoring (PAM) operators in the areas of the Agreement. In particular, in the recent past, the role of MMO and PAM operators have been introduced, who are experts in charge of monitoring - with visual and acoustic techniques - marine mammals in the proximity of noise sources, and activating appropriate mitigation measures in real time, when applicable.
2016 ODO Research Camps are ON !
After a winter full of activities of analysis of photo-id and acoustic data, scientific workshops, and public outreach events, ODO researchers are back at sea involved in the two field research camps in the Mediterranean Sea: Ischia Dolphin Project and Roman Dolphins.
ODO becomes ACCOBAMS Partner
Oceanomare Delphis Onlus becomes Partner of ACCOBAMS - the Agreement on the Conservation of Cetaceans in the Black Sea, Mediterranean Sea and Contiguous Atlantic Area - signed by 29 States (including 6 non-parties), and which this year celebrates its 20th year of activity.
Results - Workshop on Common dolphin
Oceanomare Delphis Onlus – not for profit organisation since 1998 for the study and conservation of cetaceans in the Mediterranean Sea - together with the Biological Conservation Research Foundation (BICREF, Malta) and OceanCare (Switzerland) - promoted the 1st International Workshop on Common dolphin in the Mediterranean.
The Workshop aimed at promoting a greater participation to the international dialogue and knowledge exchange on the Common dolphin in the Mediterreanan Sea, with a view to integrate the different scientific efforts and find new mechanism to strenghten the cooperation for the knowledge and conservation of the species, at local, national and international level.