Tackling threats
The Mediterranean Hotspot is subject to rapid anthropogenic change from a range of drivers, including population growth and economic development. Hence, economic development can have major negative impacts on biodiversity. However,while business is often part of the problem, it is also part of the solution.
Since 2015, ϲʿֱֳ-Med has been developing several activities for the conservation of threatenedbirds of preyin the region, involving actors from all sectors and from both shores, with a particular emphasison their main threat: thecollision and electrocution with energy infrastructures.
How We Act
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CAPACITY BUILDING AND SHARING EXPERIENCES:Among the activities carried out were the firstheld in Malaga in November 2015, the organization of a(held in Tarifa, Spain, in November 2016) followed by two training courses on the same subject inand.
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KNOWLEDGE AND GUIDELINES:Publication of the firstin 2016; editing of technical documents (in French) on theon birds and the effectiveness of;anddevelopment of a citizen science mobile app () in 2020.
First seminar on the transboundary conservation of threatened raptors held in Malaga (Spain) in November 2015.
Several national and regional authorities in charge of biodiversity conservation from both shores of the basin have been involved in this transboundaryinitiative: the, the, theof Spainand the, Spain.
The initiative was also based on a collaborationacross sectors, with the active participationof NGOs and energy companies: Groupe de recherche pour la protection des oiseaux () from Morocco,Groupe d’ornithologie () of Morocco,(AAO/Birdlife) of Tunisia,fromSpain, Office National de l’Eau et de l’Énergie () of Morocco and Société tunisienne de l'électricité et du gaz () of Tunisia.
The financial support wasprovided by the.