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48 NEW CANDIDATE IMMAS ANNOUNCED FOR MANY SPECIES FROM OTTERS TO BLUE WHALES
2022-06-25
Russian Study Lays Groundwork For IMMAs In The Western North Pacific
2022-02-22
One World Ocean
2021-06-08
23 New Candidate IMMAs In Black/ Caspian Seas
2021-03-06
Workshop To ID IMMAs In Black Sea, Turkish Straits, Caspian Sea
2021-02-19
Important Marine Mammal Areas Come Of Age
2020-11-23
New Publications On Important Marine Mammal Areas
2020-09-25
13 New Important Marine Mammal Areas Approved In The Antarctic Region
2020-08-05
Fighting For Healthy Seas For Whales, Dolphins And Ocean Ecosystems
2020-06-19
New Candidate IMMAs For Australia-New Zealand Region
2020-02-25
Thirty New IMMAs Awarded In NE Indian Ocean
2019-02-01
Southern Ocean And Subantarctic Islands Workshop Identifies 15 Candidate Important Marine Mammal Are
2018-10-21
High Seas International Conference (France) Considers IMMAs As Key High Seas Tool
2018-06-30
46 New Candidate Important Marine Mammal Areas (IMMAs) For The NE Indian Ocean-SE Asian Seas
2018-03-27
IMMA Resolution Agreed At CMS CoP
2017-11-01
Defining Where Whales And Dolphins Live
2017-10-23
BuiIding Transatlantic Partnerships Among MPAs With Whales And Dolphins
2017-10-10
ICMMPA4 Opens In Mexico
2016-11-14
Putting IMMAs On The Conservation Map
2016-11-04
Ross Sea Region MPA Designation — Largest MPA To Date
2016-11-02
1st IMMA Workshop Puts Marine Mammal Habitat In The Spotlight
2016-10-22
New Zealand Protects Vast Kermadec Islands MPA
2015-09-30
ICMMPA3 Marine Mammal Protected Areas Conference PROCEEDINGS - Available For Free Download
2015-07-21
Important Marine Mammal Areas (IMMAs) Seen As Useful Development By Convention On Migratory Species
2014-12-01
Third International Conference On Marine Mammal Protected Areas Highlights Importance Of Place And
2014-11-17
Ross Sea Marine Reserve Turned Down Again By CCAMLR
2014-10-31
New Zealanders Willing To Pay To Protect Dolphin Habitats
2014-07-26
Obama To Create World's Largest Highly Protected MPA
2014-06-18
Economic Study Shows Kiwis Favour Big MPA To Save NZ Dolphin
2013-12-31
IUCN Marine Mammal Task Force At IMPAC 3 In Marseille France
2013-11-15
New IUCN Task Force Debuts On Marine Mammal Protected Areas
2013-10-19
Russia Blocks Global Push For Ross Sea MPA
2013-07-17
Palau Proposes Comprehensive Marine Protected Area
2013-03-19
Is Australia Making Phony MPAs?
2012-12-11
Australia Rolls Out World's Largest MPA Network
2012-11-16
Ross Sea & Antarctic MPA Talks Fail
2012-11-02
Big MPAs Extend Ocean Coverage To 2.3%
2012-10-15
Cook Islands — Delivering On The Promise Of A Big MPA
2012-09-04
New Caledonia's Big New MPA
2012-09-03
Australia Rolls Out World's Largest MPA Network
2012-06-19
Homes For Whales & Dolphins Now On Google Earth
2012-05-25
Antarctic Ocean Alliance Calls For MPAs For 19 Critical Antarctic Areas
2012-05-21
New Map For Ross Sea Region Marine Reserve
2012-04-10
Windfarm Project In Chilean Blue Whale Area Suspended
2012-03-29
MPAs Helping New Zealand Dolphins
2012-03-29
Polar Protection On Ice
2012-02-27
Hector’s Dolphins Die Entangled In Gillnets In MM Sanctuary
2012-02-26
Scientists Call For No-take Coral Sea MPA
2012-02-25
New Sanctuaries For Ganges River And Irrawaddy Dolphins In Bangladesh
2012-02-16
IUCN's Green Economy In A Blue World
2012-02-01
How To Manage Scotland's Seas
2012-01-20
Cetacean Diversity In A Coral Sea
2011-12-03
Convention On Migratory Species (CMS) Opens 10th Conference Of Parties
2011-11-20
ICMMPA 2 Concludes In Martinique
2011-11-17
Oiled Bay Of Plenty — New Zealand
2011-10-11
Protecting Marine Mammal Richness
2011-10-09
Cook Islands MPA Set To Become World's Largest
2011-10-09
New Report Available: Mapping Large-scale Spatial Patterns In Cetacean Density
2011-09-21
MPA News Special Issue On MMPAs
2011-08-01
New Poster Map Of World's MPAs And Sanctuaries
2011-04-25
Critical Habitat Approved For Cook Inlet, Alaska, Belugas
2011-04-22
New Zealand Protects Its Subantarctic Waters
2011-02-21
Palau Creates EEZ Sanctuary
2010-11-01
Saving Toothfish And The Ross Sea
2010-05-08
Making The Best MPA Possible For The Chagos Archipelago
2009-12-02
Critical Habitat Proposed For Cook Inlet Belugas
2009-12-02
Defending 50-year-old Toothfish To Help Save The Ross Sea
2009-11-30
Big Decision On Australian MPAs
2009-11-26
First Big High Seas MPA In The Antarctic Region
2009-11-11
World's Two Largest MPAs Join Forces
2009-10-06
Expanded Critical Habitat Needed For NA Right Whales
2009-09-23
Russian Whale Habitat Project: Part Of WDCS's “Homes For Whales” Campaign
2009-07-04
BBC News Green Room Discusses Cetacean Habitat & MPAs
2009-06-09
Celebrating World Oceans Day, 8 June 2009
2009-06-08
Countdown To World Oceans Day
2009-06-03
Australia Opts For Interim Coral Sea Protection
2009-05-21
Indonesia Protects Blue Whale Hotspot And Largest Area Inside Coral Triangle
2009-05-21
South Africa Designates World's 6th Largest MPA — A Challenge For True Antarctic Protection?
2009-05-09
Double-MPA Conference To Map Marine Mammal Critical Habitats
2009-04-06
River Dolphin Network In South America
2009-04-06
Workshop On Mapping Cetacean Critical Habitats
2009-04-05
First Conference On Marine Mammal Protected Areas
2009-02-12
Brazil Creates EEZ Sanctuary
2009-01-19
Pew Call For Coral Sea Heritage Park
2009-01-09
US Creates 3 Large MPAs In The Pacific
2009-01-08
CMS Highlights From Rome
2008-12-09
Convention On Migratory Species (CMS) Conference Of Parties Meets In Rome
2008-11-29
Landmark West African CMS Agreement
2008-10-20
MPA News From IUCN World Conservation Congress
2008-11-06
We Sail For The Whale — And New MPAs
2008-06-24
New Map Shows Proposed MPAs In The Mediterranean & Black Seas
2008-02-22
Film Series Explores Whales & MPAs In Mediterranean
2008-02-14
Oil Spill Damages Cetacean Critical Habitat In Black Sea
2007-11-13
MPAs To Reduce Noise: Download Report (English, French, Spanish)
2007-10-11
Proposed Cetacean MPAs In Mediterranean & Black Seas
2007-03-05
Cetaceanhabitat.org — Live!
2007-03-05
Baiji Goes Extinct
2007-01-15
South Pacific Nations & Territories Forge New CMS Agreement
2006-11-29
Croatia Moves To Create First Dolphin MPA In The Mediterranean
2006-08-06