Submitted by
MugoA
on Mon, 09/04/2023 - 14:41
General Information
Resolution
49230
IUCN Constituent
Eastern and Southern Africa Regional Office
IUCN Constituent type
IUCN Secretariat
Period covered
Geographic scope
Global
Actors involved in implementing this Resolution:
IUCN Secretariat
Yes
II. Implementation
Activities carried out to implement this Resolution
Activity
Fundraising
Description and results/achievements of activities:
SSC 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.
Status
On-going
Activity
Scientific/technical activities
Description and results/achievements of activities:
Paper 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
Status
Completed
Identify and briefly describe what future actions/activities are planned for the implementation of this Resolution
Future action / activity
Policy influencing/advocacy
Description
CMS
CMS 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)
CMS 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)
Report status
Published
Constituent type
IUCN Secretariat