ASCOBANS News

ASCOBANS Outreach and Education Award to Guido Keijl & Dutch Strandings Network

10 September 2024 - Guido Keijl & the Dutch strandings network have just been announced the winner of the ASCOBANS Outreach and Education Award 202

31 August 2024

4th Meeting of the ASCOBANS Common Dolphin Group

29 January 2024 - The 4th Meeting of the Common Dolphin Group (CDG4) took place online from 9 to 10 January 2024.

29 January 2024

We Are Hiring: Report Writers for 2024

The Secretariat is seeking a report writer/s for meetings of ASCOBANS and the IOSEA Marine Turtle MOU.  Apply through the UN Careers portal by 16 January 2024.

12 January 2024

2023 Season's Greetings from the ASCOBANS Secretariat

 

Season’s Greetings and Happy New Year 2024 from the ASCOBANS Secretariat!

09 December 2023

28th Meeting of the Advisory Committee Concluded in Bonn

The 28th Meeting of the ASCOBANS Advisory Committee (AC28) took place from 26 to 28 September 2023 in Bonn, Germany, at the Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation, Nuclear Safety and Consumer Protection (BMUV).  The meeting discussed key issues such as cetacean watching industry, recreational sea use, pollution and hazardous substances, ship strikes, climate change, MPAs and other protected areas.

02 October 2023

Technical Workshop on Developing Guidelines for Cetacean-sensitive Maritime Spatial Planning

A technical workshop was organized on 27-28 June 2023, online, to present an overview of the feedback received to the draft Guidelines for cetacean-sensitive marine spatial planning, and to discuss any points that need to be solved before the draft could be presented to the 28th Meeting of the ASCOBANS Advisory Committee.

03 July 2023

6th Meeting of the Sessional Committee of the CMS Scientific Council

The Sixth Meeting of the Sessional Committee of the Scientific Council (ScC-SC6) will be held from 18 to 21 July 2023 at the UNEP/CMS Secretariat premises in Bonn, Germany. As ScC-SC6 being the last meeting of the Scientific Council before the Fourteenth Meeting of the Conference of the Parties to CMS (COP14), its main objective will be to provide advice on scientific and technical matters to the COP.

30 June 2023

Conservation Objective Workshops

The ASCOBANS Secretariat held two workshops in April and May 2023, to review the appropriateness of current ASCOBANS conservation objectives.

26 May 2023

Workshop on current cetacean bycatch issues in European waters

The Secretariats of ACCOBAMS and ASCOBANS co-organized an ECS Workshop on current cetacean bycatch issues in European waters, which took take place in O Grove, Galicia, Spain, on 17 April 2023, as part of the 34th Annual Conference of the European Cetacean Society. The objective was to share information, and to discuss how such bycatch can be mitigated. 

26 April 2023