N°12 April 2014

You will find below a summary of the April2014 release, in english. Click on the picture to download the newsletter.

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Tenemos el placer de presentarle el boletín del CAR SPAW, que se publica en Inglés. Abajo hay un resumen del número de Abril2014. Para descargar pulse en la imagen.

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Vous trouverez ci-dessous le sommaire du numéro de Avril 2014 en anglais. Cliquez sur l'image pour télécharger.

News of the month:
Announcement and Save -The-Date for the upcoming Intergovernmental Meetings of the Cartagena Convention

Focus on:
Call for listing additional PAs under SPAW Protocol for next COP planned for 25th November and progress on the dedicated programme of cooperation

SPAW-listed sites and CaMPAM News
■ CaMPAM/ECMMAN Small Grant Program to promote effective marine managed areas in the Eastern Caribbean under ECMMAN project – first call for proposals
■ Learning Exchange for Junior MPA Officers in Belize organized by IUCN BIOPAMA program with the contribution of UNEP-CEP/SPAW-CaMPAM

On-going projects:
■ 'ZOE' missions: Post-larval capture and culture in Guadeloupe, FWI
■ Agoa marine mammal monitoring campaign, dry season 2014
■ Deploying Argos satellite tags on humpback whales in the Northen Lesser Antilles
■ Meeting on Scenarios for Transboundary Marine Mammal Management in the Wider Caribbean
■ Voluntary Scheme for Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services in Territories of European Overseas
■ Fifteenth Session of the Western Central Atlantic Fishery Commission (26-28 March, 2014)

Brief:
■ Arrival of a dedicated ECMMAN project assistant
■ Ecosystem conservation and restoration : CDB Capacity-building workshop for the Caribbean in Belize City
■ Funding opportunity : USFWS Wildlife Without Borders-Latin America and Caribbean
■ Who Pays the Birds? Caribbean Endemic Bird Festival 2014

■ Upcoming lionfish workshops to implement the Regional Lionfish Strategy at the national and sub-regional scale

■ New environmental project in Haiti within the recently declared second MPA in the country

Publications

Upcoming and recent events

Useful links