ASCOBANS | Agreement on the Conservation of Small Cetaceans of the Baltic, North East Atlantic, Irish and North Seas

In Memoriam: Robert Vagg 1961-2021

© Martin Wein
Season's Greetings from the ASCOBANS Secretariat

ASCOBANS Season's Greetings e-card 2020. © ASCOBANS Secretariat
New Citizen Science App for Cetacean Sightings
ASCOBANS Common Dolphin Group Meets Online

Short-beaked common dolphin (Delphinus delphis) © Gregory Smith (CC BY-SA 2.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0/)
Intersessional Working Group on Beaked Whales Established

Northern Bottlenose Whale (Hyperoodon ampullatus). © Line Kyhn

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Upcoming Meetings & Events

Recently Concluded Meetings & Events

16th Meeting of the Steering Group for the ASCOBANS Recovery Plan for Baltic Harbour Porpoises
8-9 June 2020, online

25th Meeting of the Advisory Committee
17-19 September 2019, Stralsund, Germany

Guidelines for the Safe and Humane Handling and Release of Bycaught Small Cetaceans from Fishing Gear - CMS Technical Series No.43

Published August 2020

Intergovernmental Framework to Tackling Cetacean Bycatch

Published December 2019

European Whales, Dolphins, and Porpoises: Marine Mammal Conservation in Practice

Published December 2019

Fact Sheet on Marine Noise

Published June 2018

About ASCOBANS

Migrating cetaceans regularly cross national boundaries. Their protection can only effectively be achieved by means of international cooperation. The aim of the Agreement is to promote close cooperation between countries with a view to achieving and maintaining a favourable conservation status for small cetaceans throughout the Agreement Area.

ASCOBANS Anniversary Book

Upcoming Events

9th Meeting of the North Sea Group | 20/01/2021
1st Meeting of the Joint Bycatch Working Group of ACCOBAMS and ASCOBANS | 10/02/2021
26th Meeting of the Advisory Committee | 08/11/2021

Species of the week

Tursiops truncatus