CONVENTION ON MIGRATORY SPECIES - SIRENIANS, PINNIPEDS AND OTTERS

The relevant parts are reproduced below: 13.81 Directed to the Aquatic Mammals Working Group of the Scientific Council The Aquatic Mammals Working Group is requested, subject to the availability of resources, to: a) review the regional threats for the CMS-listed aquatic mammals not included in the Global Programme of Work (POW) for Cetaceans […]; b) based on this assessment of threats and regional. [...] It aims to achieve and maintain a favourable conservation status for manatees and small cetaceans of Western Africa and Macaronesia and their habitats, and to safeguard the associated values of these species for the people of the region. [...] The Agreement on the Conservation of Seals in the Wadden Sea (WSSA), which covers the Harbour Seal and the Grey Seal in a coastal area shared by Denmark, Germany and the Netherlands, is managed by the Common Wadden Sea Secretariat (CWSS). [...] While cetaceans, as the group of aquatic mammals with the largest number of species listed on the CMS Appendices, have been the subject of several agreements and MOUs, as well as Concerted Actions and a dedicated Global Programme of Work (see UNEP/CMS/COP14/Doc.27.5.1), some of the listed sirenian and pinniped species or populations, and both listed otter species, have not been subject to specific. [...] EE The Secretariat shall, subject to the availability of external resources, facilitate the development of draft reviews of conservation status and threats to CMS-listed aquatic mammal species and recommendations for the consideration of the Scientific Council as foreseen in Decision 14.