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Pilot Study on Giant Manta Ray Populations Launched

Oceanic Manta Ray (Manta birostris) Southern Spur, Fuvahmulah Atoll, Maldives

Oceanic Manta Ray (Manta birostris) Southern Spur, Fuvahmulah Atoll, Maldives © Guy Stevens Manta Trust 2015

Bonn, 19 October 2015 - CMS is launching a pilot study on the connectivity between Giant Manta Ray populations in the Galapagos and coastal Ecuador and Peru in cooperation with the Manta Trust and

19 October 2015

Sharks and Rays at CMS COP 11 - What comes next?

Photo: Save our Seas Foundation Magazine

A record number of migratory sharks and rays were listed for global protection at the CMS COP11, held in Quito, Ecuador in 2014.  But, what comes next? 

10 August 2015

Sharks of the Arabian Seas - an identification guide

This guide provides identification keys to 68 species of sharks encountered in the Arabian Seas region, and an additional 14 species of sharks and batoids. These include all shark species whose trade or conservation status is regulated through international instruments as well as the ray and sawfish species known to occur in the region.

06 August 2015

Support for International Conservation of Sharks and Rays in Oceania is Growing as New Zealand Joins the CMS Sharks MOU

Photo Credit: Oceans and Coast SA

Bonn, 13 July 2015 - New Zealand signed the UNEP/CMS Memorandum of Understanding on the Conservation of Migratory Sharks (Sharks MOU) on 6 July 2015. 

13 July 2015

EU scores Pacific protections for Manta and Devil Rays

Photo: Andrea Marshall

Fishing nations at the annual meeting of the Inter-American Tropical Tuna Commission (IATTC) have taken concrete, groundbreaking steps to conserve Eastern Pacific manta and devil rays, but have failed to reach consensus on proposals to strengthen the region’s ban on shark finning (slicing off a shark's fins and discarding the body at sea) or on bids to curb fishing of hammerhead and Silky Sharks.

08 July 2015

Signing Ceremony at COP11

Lyle Glowka, Ahmed Al-Hashmi and Bradnee Chambers (l-r) © UNEP/CMS

Lyle Glowka, Ahmed Al-Hashmi and Bradnee Chambers (l-r) © UNEP/CMS

New Signatories to MOUs and Partnership Agreements Signed

05 November 2014

CMS COP11 Topics Discussed at Preparatory Workshop in Fiji

participants during a session of the workshop © Francisco Rilla, UNEP/CMS

particpants during a session of the workshop © Francisco Rilla, UNEP/CMS

The UNEP/CMS Secretariat, in conjunction with the Department of Fisheries of Fiji and the Secretariat of the Pacific Regional Environmental Programme (SPREP), successfully completed the regional preparatory workshop for the 11th Conference of the Parties to CMS (COP 11). The workshop took place in Nadi, Fiji on 18-20 August 2014.

28 August 2014

Shark Conservation in the Spotlight – Nine Countries Sign the CMS Sharks MOU in Dubai

Workshop participants

Workshop participants

Bonn, 27 February 2014 - International shark conservation has received a strong boost this month,  with 9 of the 13 countries which gathered in Dubai for a training workshop signin

15 March 2014

Colombia signs Sharks MOU

The Minister of Environment of Colombia, Luz Helena Sarmiento, signing the Sharks MOU.

The CMS Secretariat welcomes Colombia as the 27th country signing the Memorandum of Understanding on the Conservation of Migratory Sharks (Sharks MOU) with effect from 1 November 2013.

29 December 2013