The Marine Mammal Twinning
Marine mammals play a crucial role in marine ecosystem function, providing valuable ecosystem services. However, many continue to be adversely impacted by human activity and are often underrepresented in Marine Protected Area (MPA) management plans, commonly as a result of low capacity, lack of resources and/or knowledge to implement such plans.
To address this, the Marine Mammal Twinning, entitled ‘Marine mammal protection, a way to enhance transatlantic cooperation between MPA’, and as a part of the EU-funded Ocean Governance Project, has designed and created a toolkit for the inclusion of marine mammals into MPAs, to enable MPA managers to contribute more effectively to the conservation of marine mammals.
