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«No conservation or development initiative is legitimate without meaningful stakeholder consultation and the free, prior and informed consent of affected communities».

The first CPF Fishers’ Forum 2025, themed “Empowering the voice of small-scale coastal fishers,” was held on Thursday, November 27, and Friday, November 28, in Piraeus, organized by the Cyclades Preservation Fund (CPF) and supported by the Blue Marine Foundation (BMF), as part of the Cycladorama initiative, which aims to empower and network the coastal fishing communities of the islands towards a more sustainable direction, with a focus on the Cyclades.

“The destruction of the rainforest happens in plain sight. But bottom trawling – a practice in which heavy fishing nets are dragged across the ocean floor, dredging up carbon that’s long been stored in the seabed – is a kind of deforestation beneath the waves”, by Enric Sala.

Kenya takes center stage in international negotiations on marine protection, hosting the next Our Ocean Conference 2026.

The Hellenic Society for the Protection of Nature participates in the NaTour4CChange project, as part of Mission 4 – “Enhancing Sustainable Tourism” of the European Interreg Euro-MED Program.

According to the published research, about 1/3 of ecological programs are abandoned a few years after their launch, undermining ecological efforts, as recovery of the natural landscape can take decades to become apparent.

Portugal appears to be reaching the 30X30 target by 2026, with the announcement of a new Marine Protected Area.

Just days before the start of the COP30 international climate conference in Brazil, the government triumphantly announced agreements with oil giants for hydrocarbon extraction in the seas off Crete and the Ionian Islands, as well as a long-term commitment to import American liquefied natural gas (LNG) from 2030.

COP30, the global (with the participation of 198 countries) UN conference of the parties, is taking palce n Belem, Brazil.

The annual report of the ARCHELON Program for 2025 highlights the Kyparissia bay as an area of high importance for loggerhead sea turtles.

The initiative to establish two new marine parks is particularly important, as pointed out by environmental organizations Blue Marine Foundation, Cyclades Preservation Fund, Greenpeace, iSea, the Hellenic Society for the Protection of Nature, the Hellenic Ornithological Society, the Thalassa Foundation/AENAOS THALASSA, and WWF Greece.

From AMORGORAMA towards a roadmap to CYCLADORAMA

October 2025 On Friday, October 3, at the Megaron Athens Concert Hall, we will attend the Greek premiere of Ocean with David Attenborough and a

Following Greece’s commitments announced at the International Conference Our Ocean, the Special Environmental Studies for the two new National Marine Parks in the Southern Cyclades and the Ionian (National Marine Park of the Ionian and National Marine Park of the Southern Aegean 1 – Southern Cyclades) have been completed and have been put to public consultation from July 21, 2025 until September 22.

A new WWF report reveals that the EU is significantly behind on its goal to protect at least 30% of marine areas by 2030, with only 2.04% of Marine Protected Areas (MPAs) currently having approved management plans.

The Observatory weseayou presents its first report for the monitoring of Greece’s progress on the protection of the marine environment!