TOTAL FOUNDATION PARTNERS
Institutional Partners
The Port-Cros National Park was set up by ministerial decree on 14 December 1963 and has been a pioneer for marine reserves across the Mediterranean. Nowadays, the Park authorities manage the island of Porquerolles which was almost wholly acquired by the State in 1971 in a bid to protect it from rampant town development in conjunction with the local authorities in Hyères and Croix Valmer. It is also involved in managing property belonging to the Coastal Management Agency (Conservatoire du Littoral), the Hyères Saltpans, the Giens peninsula and Cape Lardier.The PNPC's core mission is to protect biodiversity and marine ecosystems. The joint ventures engaged in over the past few years have involved fishermen and marine recreational activity developers inter alia in a bid to define the technical and regulatory requirements for a logical and well thought out management scheme for natural resources and the sustainable development of these activities.
The World Conservation Union (IUCN)Since its inception in 1948, IUCN, the World Conservation Union, has been working to protect the natural resources of this planet. The mission of IUCN is to influence, encourage and assist societies across the planet to safeguard the integrity and the diversity of nature in addition to ensuring that the utilisation of natural resources is fair and ecologically sustainable.
IUCN has members in 140 countries comprising 70 States, 100 governmental agencies and 750 NGOs (Non Governmental Organisations). As such IUCN is the world's biggest conservation agency.
IUCN has contributed to defining major international conventions on biological diversity, wetland areas, world heritage, commercial exploitation of endangered species (both fauna and flora).
IUCN is also a world network of institutions, NGOs, States including 10,000 scientists and experts of world renown from 180 countries and who offer their expertise to the 6 Committee that meet at IUCN.
In 1985, IUCN recognised the need to conserve marine and coastal resources and set up the GMP, (Global Marine Programme) which aims at promoting, influencing and focusing the sustainable use and the equitable share-out of biological resources in addition to protecting marine ecosystems. Since its inception, the GMP has been working in South East Asia, the Near East, Africa, the Mediterranean and Central and South America. It deals with a number of issues such as Integrated Coastal and Marine management, fisheries, MPAs, major marine ecosystems and the rehabilitation of coral reefs and the effect of bleaching on corals and climate change.
A substantial part of the work done by the GMP addresses issues in the Mediterranean and is managed by the IUCN Centre for Co-operation located in Malaga, Spain.
Scientific Partners
- IFREMER- NATIONAL OCEANOGRAPHY CENTER, Southampton
- WORLD MARITIME UNIVERSITY
