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WCC 2020 Res 091 - Activity Report

Submitted by MugoA on Mon, 09/04/2023 - 13:02
General Information
Global Conservation of rhino rays (Rhinidae, Glaucostegidae, Rhinobatidae)
IUCN Constituent: 
Eastern and Southern Africa Regional Office
IUCN Constituent type: 
IUCN Secretariat
Period covered: 
2022
Geographic scope: 
Global
In implementing this Resolution your organization has worked/consulted with...
IUCN Secretariat: 
Yes
Implementation
Indicate and briefly describe any actions that have been carried out to implement this Resolution: 
ActionDescriptionStatus
FundraisingSSC SSG Chair fundraising successfully secured 2.7M USD from Shark Conservation Fund to begin delineation of Important Shark And Ray areas globally and hired a team of 10+ scientists to do these workshops.On-going
Scientific/technical activitiesPaper link is https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fmars.2022.968853/full - nearly 10K views of the ISRA paper - moving conservation for sharks and rays and chimearas forward Completed
Identify and briefly describe what future actions are planned for the implementation of this Resolution: 
Future ActionDescription
Policy influencing/advocacyCMS ISRA documentation is linked here https://www.cms.int/sites/default/files/document/cms_cop14_doc.27.4.2_isra_e.pdf At the 4th Meeting of the Signatories to the Sharks MOU (MOS4), Signatories welcomed the Initiative and progress made by the IUCN SSC SSG in developing robust selection and review criteria for identifying ISRAs and acknowledged the criteria and identification process posted on the ISRA website (sharkrayareas.org) with minor cha