Are you a manager of a coastal and marine protected area or a marine litter practitioner?

Are you interested in filling in the ‘data gaps’ that hamper an effective implementation of essential measures to address the growing threat of marine litter in Med coastal and marine protected areas?

Then you may wish to join the ACT4LITTER Marine Litter Watch Month to be held from 15^th of December 2017 until 14^th January 2018.

The ACT4LITTER Marine Litter Watch Month offers to  managers and marine litter experts a unique opportunity to join forces and carry out beach litter surveys in a harmonized way in order to elaborate a snapshot assessment report on marine litter found on beaches in Med coastal and marine protected areas.

The one-month pilot beach surveys will deploy a harmonised monitoring approach by applying  the protocol prepared by MIO-ECSDE in cooperation with others within the framework of the IPA-Adriatic DeFishGear project, in accordance with the guidelines the EU Marine Strategy Framework Directive Marine Litter Technical Group and the UN Environment / Mediterranean Action Plan – MEDPOL.  Technical support for the implementation of the aforementioned protocol will be provided through two webinars on how to apply the Methodology for Monitoring Marine Litter on Beaches to be organized by MIO-ECSDE on the 12^th of December 2017, 11.30 CET and the 15^th of December 2017, 11.30 CET, respectively.

You are kindly invited to express your interest in joining the ACT4LITTER Marine Litter Watch Month and the webinars by Friday the 8th of December 2017, by filling out the application form and returning it to the ACT4LITTER MLW Month coordinator Thomais Vlachogianni (vlachogianni@mio-ecsde.org).

Don't hesitate to forward the invitation to your respective networks.
Looking forward to your positive replies!

On behalf of the ACT4LITTER project,
Thomais Vlachogianni
MIO-ECSDE Programme Officer