On 23 November 2018 during CBD COP14 in Sharm El-Sheikh, Egypt, GOBI took part in a day-long event titled Sustainable Ocean Day: Ocean Voices. The event, organised by the CBD Secretariat, provided an opportunity for diverse ocean stakeholders to share stories in an unconventional, informal way, by giving a ‘voice’ to coral reefs, mangroves, seagrass,Continue Reading Sustainable Ocean Day: Ocean Voices
In November 2018, as part of GOBI’s support to the identification an implementation of Important Marine Mammal Areas (IMMAs), co-chairs of the Marine Mammals Protected Area Task Force (MMPATF) Giuseppe Notarbartolo di Sciara and Erich Hoyt travelled to the Andaman and Nicobar Islands, India, in the Bay of Bengal, to work with Indian scientists andContinue Reading Implementing IMMAs in the Andaman Sea
Check out the latest edition of the GOBI Newsletter, launched this week in print at the CBD COP14 in Egypt. In it you will find what GOBI has been up to during its 10th anniversary, and what it’s working towards in the months ahead. Enjoy!
The 2018 UN Biodiversity Conference is underway in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt. This 14th Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity runs from 17 to 29 November 2018. This year, the process to describe ecologically or biologically significant marine areas (EBSAs) celebrates its 10th anniversary. The Conference in Egypt will be a crucialContinue Reading GOBI at CBD COP14, Egypt
GOBI was pleased to take part in the IUCN WCPA’s Beyond the Aichi Targets Task Force Marine Conservation Consultation meeting, held at the Maison des Océans in Paris on 16 & 17 October 2018. The meeting focused on future ambitions for MPA coverage, issues associated with connectivity in the marine realm, and on ways toContinue Reading Beyond the Aichi Targets consultation meeting
GOBI Partner, Fundación MarViva hosted the first of two workshops to promote the creation of a governance scheme for the portion of the Costa Rica Thermal Dome that lies in areas beyond national jurisdiction. The Dome is an ecologically and economically important oceanic feature in the tropical eastern Pacific Ocean. The workshop took place on 26Continue Reading Costa Rica Thermal Dome governance workshop
Building on the momentum of a pilot IMMA workshop sponsored by the MAVA Foundation (focused on the Mediterranean Sea) and the five IMMA workshops supported by the IKI-funded GOBI research programme (targeting the Indian and Pacific Oceans), the French Biodiversity Agency is hosting a complementary IMMA workshop targeting the Southern Ocean and Sub-Antarctic waters, heldContinue Reading Extended Southern Ocean IMMA workshop in Brest, France
The 5th International Conference on Progress in Marine Conservation took place 3-7 September 2018 in Stralsund, Germany. The conference was organised and hosted by Germany’s Federal Agency for Nature Conservation (BfN), and held at the award-winning German Oceanographic Museum OZEANEUM. Expanding the conference’s traditional focus on Europe to a more global coverage in 2018 servedContinue Reading Progress in Marine Conservation: 25-year retrospective
A strategy for the conservation of biodiversity on mid-ocean ridges from deep-sea mining has finally been published after three years in the making (DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.aar4313). Led by GOBI partners at Duke University and in collaboration with over 50 experts in the fields of environmental law, deep-sea ecology, oceanography, climate change and mathematical modelling, the article setsContinue Reading Conserving biodiversity on the mid-Atlantic ridge
A side event, jointly organised by CBD Secretariat and GOBI on the first day of CBD SBSTTA 22 (2-7 July 2018), entitled “EBSAs: Scientific Achievements and Paving the Future”, presented key results of the CBD Expert Workshop to Develop Options for Modifying the Description of Ecologically or Biologically Significant Marine Areas (EBSAs), for Describing New Areas,Continue Reading EBSAs into the future – side event at CBD SBSTTA 22
