- Title
- Mediterranean Cetacean Migration Corridor
- License
- Not Specified
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- Abstract
The Protected Marine Area “Mediterranean Cetacean Migration Corridor”includes 46.000 km2 between East Spain, Catalonia and Balearic Islands, being one of the most extended Mediterranean areas.
It has been declared ‘Marine Protected Area’ by the Government of Spain in June 2018. The measure will benefit around 3,500 fin whales migrating through this strip of water, and more than 19,000 loggerhead turtles and 6,000 stripped dolphins.The area is part of the dataset "Nationally designated areas (CDDA)", available here: https://www.eea.europa.eu/data-and-maps/data/nationally-designated-areas-national-cdda-16
- Publication Date
- May 23, 2019, 10:17 a.m.
- Type
- Vector Data
- Keywords
- PHAROS4MPAs
- Category
- Environmental Protection
- Marine Protected Areas, Natura 2000, other protection areas
- Owner
- EEA
- Restrictions
- EEA standard re-use policy: unless otherwise indicated, re-use of content on the EEA website for commercial or non-commercial purposes is permitted free of charge, provided that the source is acknowledged (http://www.eea.europa.eu/legal/copyright)
- Language
- English
- Supplemental Information
News from the UNEP-MAP website: https://www.unep.org/unepmap/news/news/key-development-barcelona-convention-mediterranean-cetacean-corridor-becomes-marine
Data collected within the Interreg-MED PHAROS4MPAs project, see https://pharos4mpas.interreg-med.eu/fileadmin/user_upload/Sites/Biodiversity_Protection/Projects/PHAROS4MPAs/MT_RECOMMENDATIONS_13june-min.pdf
- Spatial Representation Type
- vector data is used to represent geographic data
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