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Objectives

The LIFE INTEMARES project aims to lay the foundations for achieving an efficiently managed network of Natura 2000 marine areas, with the real and effective participation of the sectors involved, and research as basic tools for decision-making.

Research
  • To improve the knowledge necessary for the management of the marine areas of the Natura 2000 Network.

Conservation
  • To ensure a favourable conservation status of habitats and species of community interest.

  • To complete the Natura 2000 Network in the marine environment and ensure effective management of the sites included.

Monitoring and surveillance
  • Improve surveillance and monitoring of marine sites and the conservation status of habitats and species of community interest.

Governance and capacity building
  • Provide capacity building and training for managers and users of the sea to achieve the conservation objectives established in Natura 2000 areas.

  • Promote information, awareness and cooperation among conservation stakeholders.

  • Promote innovative approaches in the marine Natura 2000 Network and the opportunities that these sites can offer as reference areas for a new productive model in the framework of a blue economy.

  • Involve socio-economic sectors and sea users in the management of these areas.

  • Promote governance mechanisms for these areas.

  • Demonstrate the effects of integrated management and disseminate them so that they can be applied in other EU regions.

Communication, environmental awareness and environmental education
  • Reach 15% of the Spanish population.

  • To achieve a better knowledge of the marine environment and the Natura 2000 Network.

  • Raise public environmental awareness about the importance of the conservation of the marine Natura 2000 Network.

  • Involve society in the management of the sites and increase social participation.

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