Projects supported

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…

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…

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…

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…

The project aims to embark young people on board the training ship of the SOS Grand Bleu association, the "Santo Sospir", to let them discover, for a day or half-day, the biodiversity of the PELAGOS Sanctuary and the basics of navigation on a real "pirate ship". During the sea classes on board the…

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…

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…

ABIS project aims to fill some gap of knowledge about cetaceans species that use this area, to find some seasonal trend, and to assess the impact of anthropic noise on marine life, collecting long term acoustic data with a fixed underwater hydrophone-recorder. Acoustic recordings will be done for…

Photo reportage through several photographic and scientific expeditions in the heart of the Pelagos Sanctuary. These expeditions will enable us to observe, record and document the various species of marine mammals and their food webs. The collection of images and data will enable the publication of…

This project proposes to deepen our knowledge of the diet of blue and white dolphins and bottlenose dolphins in the Pelagos Sanctuary and also to contribute to the evaluation of the pressures (waste) exerted on these species by analysing the stomach contents of individuals stranded on the French…

The main objectives of the project are to study and monitor marine mammals present in the Pelagos sanctuary area throughout the year. Campaigns at sea will be carried out throughout the year to collect visual and acoustic data, using hydrophones. Website

Production of a television documentary film on the large pelagic fauna of the Mediterranean. Photographers Frédéric Larrey and Thomas Roger have been travelling the Mediterranean for the past 20 years in search of this fauna, which is rich, abundant and diverse but still little known.…

Explore Pelagos is a three-week scientific expedition with four stopovers in the Sanctuary area, in France, Monaco and Italy. The scientific mission will collect data on the species and anthropic activities, as well as train and raise awareness among local actors (institutions, managers,…

TursioNet aims to develop an automatic detection system to map and monitor over time the interactions between bottlenose dolphins and nets in the waters of the Pelagos Sanctuary in order to mitigate potential conflicts between dolphins and fishermen. Website