New Publications Celebrate Identification of 159 Important Marine Mammal Areas (IMMAs) in a Third of the Ocean

13 Important Marine Mammal Areas approved in the Southern Ocean: one of the world’s richest marine mammal areas

Letter from the Society for Marine Mammalogy to protect dugong stronghold in Mozambique

Forty five candidate IMMAs identified around Australia and New Zealand

Critical Habitat for monk seals giving birth in Cyprus shows value of IMMAs

Important Marine Mammal Areas featured at the World Marine Mammal Conference

IUCN Work Defines Habitat for Last Population of Dugong in East Africa

Two new scientific papers deal with Important Marine Mammal Areas

Record number of candidate IMMAs awarded in Western Indian Ocean and Arabian Seas

30 new IMMAs awarded in the NE Indian Ocean and SE Asian Seas

Implementing IMMAs in the Andamans, India

Applying the IMMA concept to the bottom of the world

Fifteen candidate IMMAs identified in the Southern Ocean

IMMAs Featured as MMPA Task Force Participates in CBD Technical Meeting in Montreal

High Seas International Conference Considers IMMAs as a Key Spatial Tool

Humpback Whale migration on Google Earth’s Voyager Story

Overlapping ship traffic and noise and Important Marine Mammal Areas (IMMAs) across the Mediterranean Sea

Extraordinary Mediterranean Monk Seal Workshop Identified New Candidate IMMAs for Atlantic and Mediterranean waters

The IMMA 2017 Round-Up – January 2018