External meeting
ECS-ASCOBANS Workshop: Saving the critically endangered Baltic harbour porpoise - looking for novel conservation and profile-raising approaches
May 12, 2025
External meeting
ECS-ASCOBANS Workshop: Saving the critically endangered Baltic harbour porpoise - looking for novel conservation and profile-raising approaches
Start date: May 12, 2025
End date: May 12, 2025
Time:
Place: Ponta Delgada, Portugal
Address:
What is ASCOBANS?
ASCOBANS was concluded in 1991 as the Agreement on the Conservation of Small Cetaceans of the Baltic and North Seas (ASCOBANS) under the auspices of the Convention on Migratory Species (CMS or Bonn Convention) and entered into force in 1994. To know more about it.
Description
The ECS-ASCOBANS Workshop: Saving the critically endangered Baltic harbour porpoise - looking for novel conservation and profile-raising approaches took place on 12 May 2025 in Ponta Delgada, Portugal.
The Baltic Proper harbour porpoise is Critically Endangered, and the only resident cetacean in the Baltic Sea. Although the critical conservation status of the population has been recognised for decades, not enough concrete conservation action has been taken to improve the situation.
Known obstacles to effective conservation actions will be presented and discussed, followed by an interactive workshop session that aims to come up with new, innovative measures in the areas of conservation action and policy change, scientific knowledge generation and sharing, and public information dissemination, including via the International Day of the Baltic Harbour Porpoise (IDBHP, which is on 18 May in 2025). What new ideas and angles can we come up with to save the most endangered cetacean in Europe?
The workshop focused on the Baltic Proper harbour porpoise but results will potentially be useful for other cetacean populations under threat from anthropogenic impacts. We welcome participants from all disciplines, including students. New perspectives are urgently needed.
CCB and SSNC participated on this workshop:
Co-funded by the European Union. Views and opinions expressed are however those of the author(s) only and do not necessarily reflect those of the European Union or CINEA. Neither the European Union nor the granting authority can be held responsible for them.
The Baltic Proper harbour porpoise is Critically Endangered, and the only resident cetacean in the Baltic Sea. Although the critical conservation status of the population has been recognised for decades, not enough concrete conservation action has been taken to improve the situation.
Known obstacles to effective conservation actions will be presented and discussed, followed by an interactive workshop session that aims to come up with new, innovative measures in the areas of conservation action and policy change, scientific knowledge generation and sharing, and public information dissemination, including via the International Day of the Baltic Harbour Porpoise (IDBHP, which is on 18 May in 2025). What new ideas and angles can we come up with to save the most endangered cetacean in Europe?
The workshop focused on the Baltic Proper harbour porpoise but results will potentially be useful for other cetacean populations under threat from anthropogenic impacts. We welcome participants from all disciplines, including students. New perspectives are urgently needed.
CCB and SSNC participated on this workshop:
Co-funded by the European Union. Views and opinions expressed are however those of the author(s) only and do not necessarily reflect those of the European Union or CINEA. Neither the European Union nor the granting authority can be held responsible for them.