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CanBIO: Monitoring marine global change to protect species

Why attend
In this session, you will learn how the results of the Loro Parque Foundation project can be used to advocate for a marine protected area in the region, aligned with the UN Global Goal 14 and the European Biodiversity Strategy by monitoring of critically endangered marine species.
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In 2019 Loro Parque and the Canary Islands Government launched a pioneering public-private research initiative financed with 2 million euros gathering research teams from the University of La Laguna and the University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria. The aim of this network is to establish a data and monitoring network for parameters linked to climate change, ocean acidification, underwater noise pollution and the impact of all these on marine biodiversity in the Macaronesian region. The project has so far installed two oceanographic buoys and has set up a monitoring program based on two VOS (Volunteer observing ship) and complemented with ocean glider campaigns. The project is also focused on the monitoring of marine critically endangered species in the region (butterfly ray and angel shark) as well as those marine species that will be most affected by the global change, like the marine turtles or the temperate ecosystems that will be retrating to cold coastal refuges.

Session agenda

Speaker

Dr Javier ALMUNIA

Director,
Loro Parque Fundación
Spain


09:30 - 10:30

  • IUCN Species Survival Commission (SSC)

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