New publications celebrate identification of 158 important marine mammal areas (IMMAS) in a third of the ocean.
The IUCN Marine Mammal Protected Areas Task Force announce this month the publication of a scientific paper as well as the production of a comprehensive brochure detailing their work to introduce the new tool of Important Marine Mammal Areas (IMMAs) in service of global biodiversity conservation. Since 2016, 158 IMMAs have been identified over more than a third of the ocean.
