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Management and Conservation of Reef Biodiversity and Fisheries : a pilot project of the GEF/UNOPS project entitled: “Sustainable Management of the Shared Living Marine Resources of the Caribbean Large Marine Ecosystem (CLME) and Adjacent Regions” : final report
(2020)
The overall objective of the CLME project is the sustainable management of the shared living marine resources of the Caribbean large marine ecosystem and adjacent areas through an integrated management approach that will ...
Caribbean Marine Atlas
(2020)
The Caribbean Marine Atlas (CMA) is an online digital platform that stores and provides access to geospatial information (and related documents) on the "Marine Environment and Human Societies in the Wider Caribbean Region". ...
The state of nearshore marine habitats in the Wider Caribbean
(2020)
The report focuses on three habitats that are characteristic of coastal ecosystems in the wider Caribbean, namely coral reefs, mangrove forests, and seagrass meadows. The report highlights the status and trends of the three ...
Sargassum white paper : turning the crisis into an opportunity
(2021)
Since 2011, Caribbean coastlines have been subject to unprecedented, massive, episodic influxes of floating sargassum seaweed. While 2020 was relatively mild in terms of sargassum volumes, and a global pandemic became the ...
Desarrollo de una red ecológica entre el listado SPAW de áreas marinas protegidas (AMP) del Gran Caribe
(2021)
Las áreas marinas protegidas (AMP) son herramientas importantes que se utilizan en la conservación marina y en las estrategias de protección de los ecosistemas en lugares especiales de todo el Caribe. Además de la función ...
Fortalecimiento de la consideración de los mamíferos marinos en los planes de manejo de las áreas protegidas de la región del Gran Caribe : desarrollo de herramientas y recomendaciones : informe recapitulativo
(2021)
Este documento se realizó en el contexto del proyecto "Red de Preservación de los Mamíferos Marinos del Caribe" (CARI'MAM). El objetivo de esta acción del CAR SPAW es doble: a) analizar la consideración de los mamíferos ...
Sargassum influx update for policy makers
(2021)
Since the impacts of sargassum influxes are multisectoral, there is correspondingly a wide range of stakeholders. Stakeholder dynamics, interrelationships, and interests are often complex, reflecting the complexity of the ...
Sargassum influx update for entrepreneurs and SMES
(2021)
This guidance brief is for innovators, entrepreneurs, and small and medium sized businesses interested in or having started a business initiative that makes use of sargassum as a resource or raw material. This brief is ...
National adaptation planning : emerging lessons learned from UNEP projects : policy brief
(2023)
To better inform adaptation planning and implementation, this briefing note summarises lessons, practices and areas of future adaptation support from the National Adaptation Plans (NAP) that UNEP is supporting in 23 countries ...
Proposal for the inclusion of all parrotfishes (Perciformes: Scaridae) in annexes of the protocol on specially protected areas and wildlife in the Wider Caribbean Region of the convention for the protection and development of the marine environment in the Wider Caribbean Region (SPAW Protocol)
(2021)
The working group in charge of this proposal presented to nominate all parrotfishes (Family Scaridae) for inclusion in Annex III of the SPAW Protocol and some species in Annex II. We believe that the key ecological role ...