home / all news All news (select news)   Home Secretariat Background Official text Membership Meetings Action plan Diversity database Useful contacts Site map Search © 2008 UNEP/CMS Secretariat, Hermann-Ehlers-Str. 10, 53113 Bonn, Germany Ph +49|228|815 2401 Fax +49|228|815 2449 Email secretariat@cms.int The development and maintainence of this site is donated by WDCS, Whale and Dolphin Conservation Society as a contribution to the CMS/WDCS Partnership Agreement. select date entered heading select 26 February 2013 Scientists Predict Extinction in 20 Years for Pacific Leatherback Sea Turtles: Conservation Efforts Needed Immediately select 10 December 2012 SPREP Factsheet on CMS in the Pacific released select 30 November 2012 SPREP Releases Pacific Environment and Climate Change Outlook for 2012 select 29 November 2012 False killer whales get new protection rules select 25 November 2012 Pacific nations get ready for Tuna Commission gathering select 22 November 2012 AMSA/SPREP Launches PACPLAN Workshop Series select 22 November 2012 Turn down the heat – SPREP Comments World Bank Climate Change Report select 17 November 2012 Gillnets destroying endangered species select 06 October 2012 World’s rarest whale spotted in Pacific select 26 September 2012 Future Policy Award 2012 goes to Palau: In the small Micronesian Republic local people live in peace with sharks select 04 September 2012 Website to gather data in dolphin and whale strandings select 19 August 2012 Slowing to a Whale’s Pace in Samoa select 04 September 2012 CMS Ambassador Stanley Johnson Presents New Book: Where the Wild Things Were select 18 May 2011 More valuable alive than dead: Shark tourism is far more profitable than shark meat select 16 March 2011 Australia Signs CMS Shark Agreement select 16 March 2011 Pacific Action Plan for the Year of the Dugong select 06 March 2011 WWF Announces 5th International Smart Gear Competition – submissions accepted until 31 August 2011 select 25 May 2011 Intersessional Working Group on Future Shape of CMS Elaborates Options for COP10 select 25 October 2010 Palau Declares South Pacific Sanctuary for Whales, Dolphins select 03 October 2010 A whale of a time: survey of Fiji's cetaceans a success select 29 September 2010 Dolphin-stranding in the Philippines ‘unusually high’ select 28 September 2010 Tonga and Tuvalu Collaborate to Protect Whales and Dolphins select 08 October 2010 International Efforts Save Dugongs, the World’s Last Remaining Mermaids select 13 June 2009 Scientific Council Activity Planning Meeting select 05 June 2009 World Environment Day 2009 – Your Planet Needs YOU! Scientists Predict Extinction in 20 Years for Pacific Leatherback Sea Turtles: Conservation Efforts Needed Immediately SPREP Factsheet on CMS in the Pacific released SPREP Releases Pacific Environment and Climate Change Outlook for 2012 False killer whales get new protection rules Pacific nations get ready for Tuna Commission gathering