Projects supported

Adapt-Pelagos

Adapt-Pelagos

April 2024 - March 2027 / 3 years

The Adapt-Pelagos project aims to promote existing best practices in the blue economy in order to facilitate the adoption of available solutions by local stakeholders in the Pelagos Sanctuary. One of the Blue Plan's main missions is to support the transition towards a green and blue economy. The…

In progress
The Pelagos small islands

The Pelagos small islands

January 2024 - March 2026 / 27 months

Although islands cover only 5% of the Earth's surface, they are home to 20% of the Earth's species and 600 million people depend on their ecosystem services for their sustainable development. The fact that they are islands is a strength, because the need to use their resources in a finite…

In progress
Modeling the distribution of pleasure boating in the PELAGOS Sanctuary

Modeling the distribution of pleasure boating in the PELAGOS Sanctuary

January 2024 - December 2025 / 2 years

The project aims to provide the signatory Parties of the Pelagos Agreement with maps depicting the distribution and quantification of a maritime activity that is rarely mapped and quantified precisely and consistently over a vast territory: pleasure boating.To achieve this, the first step of the…

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The impacts of a coastal infrastructure construction project on cetaceans in the Pelagos Sanctuary

The impacts of a coastal infrastructure construction project on cetaceans in the Pelagos Sanctuary

October 2023 - December 2025 / 27 months

The study comprehensively examines the impacts of a coastal infrastructure construction project on cetaceans within the Pelagos Sanctuary. It delves into various aspects including legislative context, site description, monitoring protocols, implementation of mitigation measures, analysis of…

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Azur Pelagos

Azur Pelagos

September 2023 - November 2025 / 27 months

As a partner of the Pelagos Sanctuary Charter, operator of the Natura 2000 site at Cap Ferrat, and the driving force behind the creation of a Marine Protected Area (MPA) in Nice, the Métropole Nice Côte d'Azur aims to strengthen its commitment to marine mammal protection. This will be achieved…

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Research and documentary film on the relationships between humans and dolphins

Research and documentary film on the relationships between humans and dolphins

July 2023 - December 2025 / 30 months

The relations between humans and dolphins have varied throughout time and among coastal civilizations. Adored and mythified, the animal has also been perceived as a rival, and has been, and sometimes still is, killed by fishermen for marine resources. The project will retrace, through a dual…

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