A Review to Support the Development of a Second CMS Cetacean Programme of Work (2024-2035) | Page 7 UNEP/CMS/COP14/Inf.27.5.1a/Rev.1 Looking Back and Projecting Forward Looking back at the first Global Programme of Work for Cetaceans The first Global Programme of Work for Cetaceans was drafted in the lead up to CMS Conference of the Parties (COP)10 to intentionally span three COP cycles, as a proj. [...] These include the extensive and ground- breaking, conservation-driven work on Animal Culture; the growing and previously unacknowledged issue of aquatic wild meat harvesting; the detailed focus on the impact of noise-generating activities in the marine environment and the development and endorsement of the CMS Family Guidelines on Environmental Impact Assessment for Marine Noise-generating Activit. [...] Much of the work that transpired took place with external funding without drawing on the core resources of CMS including the work on Animal Culture; the specific focus on aquatic wild meat harvesting in Western Africa; the development and endorsement of the CMS Family Guidelines on Environmental Impact Assessment for Marine Noise-generating Activities; and the considerable work in the development. [...] A Review to Support the Development of a Second CMS Cetacean Programme of Work (2024-2035) | Page 11 UNEP/CMS/COP14/Inf.27.5.1a/Rev.1 Current Status of CMS-listed Cetaceans Between the adoption of the First Programme of Work for Cetaceans and the drafting of this review for the second, the status of cetaceans in almost all oceans has worsened. [...] In 2019, reports presented to the IWC Scientific Committee raised concerns as it was estimated that the current level of hunting of short- A Review to Support the Development of a Second CMS Cetacean Programme of Work (2024-2035) | Page 23 UNEP/CMS/COP14/Inf.27.5.1a/Rev.1 finned pilot whales (Globicephala macrorhynchus, App II) and orcas in the waters of St Vincent and the Grenadines were unsustai.
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