News and Events
The July 2018 Newsletter of the IGU CCS has been released and ready to read!
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The CCS Newsletter is issued twice a year and highlights the activities of the Commission on Coastal Systems (CCS) to the International Geographical Union (IGU) and its members from around the globe. Copies of the Newsletter and announcements are on the CCS website: http://www.igu-ccs.org/.
The July 2018 CCS Newsletter can be read also here!
BLUE CONNECT joined the #30DayMapChallenge with a Burgas Bay (Black Sea)-themed map
As part of this year’s #30DayMapChallenge, the BLUE CONNECT Project has highlighted one of its 12 Demonstration Sites - Burgas Bay, Black Sea and its marine biodiversity with a new map demonstrating the spatial overlap between fishing activities and the Black Sea bottlenose dolphins (Tursiops Truncatus) in the Bulgarian sea waters. The 30 day map challenge is a yearly event each November in which participants aim to make a different map every day according to a set of themes and share them on social media with the hashtag #30DayMapChallenge.
Created by our colleague Lawrence Whatley from VLIZ, the map visualises areas where trawling and set gillnet fishing – identified as key pressures – intersect with recorded sightings of bottlenose dolphins. In Burgas Bay, marine mammals including the Black Sea bottlenose dolphin (Tursiops Truncatus) have been identified as important ecological subjects, and fishing, particularly trawling and gillnet fishing, as a significant pressure. By overlaying data from GBIF: The Global Biodiversity Information Facility and Global Fishing Watch, the hot spot areas of impact are visualized to help inform conservation and restoration measures. The map shows sightings of bottlenose dolphins and areas where at least 5 hours of set gillnet fishing and/or 20 hours of trawling have happened in the last year.
Read more: BLUE CONNECT joined the #30DayMapChallenge with a Burgas Bay (Black Sea)-themed map
EEA Report No 3/2018 published
This report provides an evaluation on how the growing knowledge on adaptation in Europe has been captured and how it is presented on the web-based European Climate Adaptation Platform (Climate-ADAPT) and shared across Europe.
THE #7 ISSUE OF THE BLUE HORIZONS MPA NEWSLETTER IS READY TO READ!
We’re thrilled to bring you a wave of exciting updates from across our marine conservation and MSP initiatives!
We are excited to share that the MPA Community Network has grown to 12 members, a big milestone for a community that only launched earlier this year.
Highlights for the MPA-CN over the last months:
- We were represented at the Danish EU Presidency's Mission Ocean & Waters Conference on 23–24 September and received a lot of interest in our work.
- The MPA Card Game is flying through test rounds has been brought to several events by our members. In June, it even went aboard the METEOR research vessel as one of the UNOC 2025 side events! You can download it on the website.
- We were also featured by the European Commission last week, alongside our founding member BLUE4ALL. We were thrilled to be highlighted amongst the 100 other members of the EU Blue Parks Community! Read more about it here, and be sure to join the 5th EU Blue Parks webinar on 19th Nov – details in the events section.
Read more: THE #7 ISSUE OF THE BLUE HORIZONS MPA NEWSLETTER IS READY TO READ!