South & Central America & The Caribbean

World Oceans Day – Focus on the Galapagos

With today being World Oceans Day, CMS is looking at Ecuador, which in March this year designated 40,000 square kilometres of the waters around the Galapagos Islands as conservation areas.

07 June 2016

Executive Secretary in Brazil – Addressing Senate and World Environmental Law Congress

CMS Executive Secretary, Bradnee Chambers, has just completed a busy visit to Brazil, a country which became the 122nd Party to CMS in October last year.

11 May 2016

Actions to Protect Andean Flamingos Agreed in Cuzco

On 26-27 April 2016 the First Meeting of Signatories of the High Andean Flamingos MOU took place in Cuzco (Peru). The meeting was attended by representatives of Bolivia, Chile and Peru, which are the three signatories of the MOU, and a number of observers including the Ramsar Convention Secretariat. Experts from France and Spain also came as representatives of the European Union to share their experience in the conservation and management of flamingo species.

09 May 2016

First Meeting of Signatories of the High Andean Flamingos MOU to Convene in Peru

Bonn, 25 April 2016 - From 26 to 28 of April the first Meeting of the Signatories MOU on the Conservation of High Andean Flamingos and their Habitats will be held in Cu

25 April 2016

New Galápagos Sanctuary Has World’s Highest Abundance of Sharks

An abundance of marine wildlife receives protection from fishing by the government of Ecuador.

21 March 2016

Countries Agree on Actions to Protect Sharks

Governments, international shark experts and conservation organizations agree on measures to conserve the world’s sharks and rays at a United Nations–backed meeting in Costa Rica.

19 February 2016

International Meeting to Protect the World's Sharks Convenes in Costa Rica

The second Meeting of Signatories to the Convention on Migratory Species Sharks MOU is taking place in San José, Costa Rica, from 15 to 19 February.

15 February 2016

International Meeting to Conserve the World’s Sharks Taking Place in Costa Rica

The second meeting of the signatories to the Memorandum of Understanding on the Conservation of Migratory Sharks is taking place in San José, Costa Rica from 15 to 19 February. It will be preceded by the first meeting of the Memorandum’s Advisory Committee under the chairmanship of John Carlson of the USA. The MOU is a non-legally binding instrument and was negotiated under the auspices of the Convention on Migratory Species (CMS).

25 January 2016

2016/002: First Meeting of the Signatories of the Memorandum of Understanding on the Conservation of High Andean Flamingos and Their Habitats

The UNEP/CMS Secretariat is pleased to announce that the First Meeting of the Signatories to the Memorandum of Understanding of Understanding on the Conservation of High Andean Flamingos and their

14 January 2016

2015/029: 2nd Meeting of Signatories (MOS2) to the Migratory Sharks MOU - Confirmation of Venue in San José, Costa Rica

Further to Notification 2015/022, the CMS Secretariat, in its capacity as Interim Secretariat of the Memorandum of Understanding on the Conservation of Migratory Sharks (Sharks MOU), is pleased to

03 December 2015