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You will find below a summary of the February 2013 release, in english. Click on the picture to download the newsletter.

(or copy and paste in your browser: car-spaw-rac.org/IMG/pdf/SPAW_Newsletter_No8.pdf )

Summary

News of the month

18 Protected Areas (PAs) have been listed under the SPAW Protocol during the Seventh Meeting of the Contracting Parties - COP7

Focus on

UNEP-CAR/RCU and SPAW meetings: Adoption of the new SPAW Workplan for 2013-2014

On-going projects

• Results of the 2nd Agoa monitoring campaign
  

• Wrap-up of Caribbean Challenge initiative : two last mid-size grants for enforcement awarded
  

• Extension of the LifeWeb project on broad-scale Marine Spatial Planning (MSP) for marine mammals and next activities
  

• Update on the major achievements of the GEF Caribbean Large Marine Ecosystem (CLME) Reef Biodiversity and Reef Fisheries Pilot Project
  

• Caribbean Waterbird Census Regional Count 2013
  

• Wrapping-up of the project on mangrove reforestation and environmental education in Haiti

Publications

Events

Brief:

• Translation of the Lionfish Manual in Spanish completed

• New large project on MPAs : the IUCN BIOPAMA project

• Karukera Benthos 2012 in Guadeloupe, FWI

• CMS Small Grants Programme Announces Projects Funded

• NFWF announcement of solicitation for spring 2013 funding 

Useful links