Mediterranean Posidonia Network

06/05/2025

📣The MPN Seminar 2025 is officially underway!

We’re proud to launch the Mediterranean Posidonia Network Seminar, taking place from May 5 to 9, 2025 in Yasmine Hammamet, 📍 Tunisia.
#️⃣ 92 participants from 16 Mediterranean countries are gathered to share insights, build alliances, and drive bold regional action for Posidonia resilience.

➡️ This edition will see the formal validation of our MPN Roadmap, a first-of-its-kind framework for Posidonia conservation and restoration in the region, paving the way toward the upcoming . This Seminar marks our second in-person reunion after the very first MPN Seminar held in Formentera in 2021.

The seminar opened with a strong institutional message. Mr. Elyes Hamza, Director of UNEP/MAP - SPA/RAC, officially launched the week. The founding members of the MPN shared their vision and continued commitment to the network:
* FLORENT MERLE, Deputy Director of the European and International Relations Department at the Office français de la biodiversité
* Degron Robin, Director of Plan Bleu
* Jamel Jrijer, Director of WWF North Africa
* Catherine PIANTE, MedPAN
We also heard inspiring testimonies from MPN members!
* Joseph A. Borg, University of Malta
* Matea Spika, , Croatia
* Vasilis Gerakaris, , Greece

Frédéric Villers from OFB presented a snapshot of MPN’s key figures and milestones, setting the scene for a week of forward-looking discussions.

Special thanks to the Fondation ENGIE for its financial support, which helped make this event possible, as part of the sponsorship agreement with the French Biodiversity Agency > Office français de la biodiversité.

22/03/2024

The Mediterranean Posidonia Network was pleased to announce the participation of Christine Pergent-Martini and Frédéric Villers at today's conference organized by Accord RAMOGE on "Restoring Posidonia Meadows in Ramoge zones" in the framework of the

This event took place at the , just after the signing of a RAMOGE-PELAGOS memorandum of understanding in the presence of Prince Albert II of Monaco.

The on of the Posidonia meadows produced by the Posidonia Restoration working group were presented.

The main objectives of this restoration guidance were as follows:

➡️ To develop structured Posidonia restoration guidelines involving the successive steps from the need to restore, the planning, the sites selection, the actual restoration measures, monitoring, and assessment.

➡️ To present and describe case studies showcasing successful Posidonia restoration measures, particularly those employing nature-based solutions.

➡️ To analyze previous unsuccessful experiments in order to identify the causes of failure, and by doing this, to support the broad knowledge-based implementation of new Posidonia restoration projects whenever and wherever these may be deemed relevant.

09/11/2023

🌱 A fruitful workshop took place this week in 📍 Marseille (France) on topic. The Office français de la biodiversité, WWF, SPA RAC , IUCN, BlueSeeds, as organizers created a space to explore financing mechanisms specifically tailored to the protection and restoration of meadows.

By bringing together a diverse range of perspectives, we aim to foster collaborative discussions, share knowledge, and identify effective strategies to address the challenges faced by this fragile ecosystem.

The workshop "Exploring Blue Carbon Financing Mechanisms to Protect Mediterranean Seagrass" gathered around the same table during 3 days a diverse array of agents such as scientists from the University of Corsica Pasquale Paoli, Hellenic Centre for Marine Research - HCMR , Superior Institute Biotechnology Of Sidi Thabet, authorities from Govern de les Illes Balears y Junta de Andalucía and – générale de l’énergie et du climat , Marine Protected Areas managers from Parc naturel régional de Corse - Parcu di Corsica, Parc Marin de la Côte Bleue and Parc national des Calanques, international experts from Conservation International, The MedFund, MedPAN-network, Udruga za prirodu, okoliš i održivi razvoj Sunce and Climate Consultancy such as EcoAct, private companies Iberostar, and environnemental consultant Whitesand Solutions.

Frédéric Villers shared with all the experts the Mediterranean Posidonia Network roadmap to advancing the journey toward the 100% protection of by 2030 ! ✔

04/05/2023

Posidonia Yachting Regulations Webinar this 15th May.

Sign up! 🛥️🚤🛥️🚤

📣 Attention please! 📣

We are so pleased to announce that Yachting Pages will be hosting a second free webinar with the French maritime authories about the Posidonia laws in place for superyachts across the French Riviera. Anyone can sign up the webinar, but we strongly encourage captains, crew, charter agents, and management companies in particular to attend so that you are fully up to speed with all the restrictions in place for the season.

The webinar will include all the latest information on anchoring, underwater lights, and noise regulations, updates on DONIA mooring buoys and how to book them, mooring buoys around Bonifacio Marina in Corsica, and NEW information on superyacht laws in the Balearic Islands.

With serious penalties for those who do not adhere to the laws, this is certainly not one to miss!

Please sign up to the webinar by scanning the QR code below or by simply heading straight to the sign up page here: https://loom.ly/kFNqMHQ

See you there! 👋

Office français de la biodiversité Bonifacio Marina Mediterranean Posidonia Network

08/03/2023

The Balearic Islands Government, through the Conselleria de Medi Ambient i Territori, organized, within the context of the Seagrass Awareness Month, an event on strengthening the Mediterranean Posidonia Network at the EU Balearic Office in Brussels.

The main aim was to present the case study of the Balearic Islands and the protection of the Posidonia and advances in legislation, creating Posidonia surveillance system, providing eco-moorings for boats, awareness’s campaigns and many other tools to inspire other Mediterranean touristic destinations who also have the mandate to protect their seas to pursue a future based on marine conservation, whilst maintaining fruitful livelihoods for all society. Without a heatlhy Mediterranean society and the econimic activities will not be sustainable over time.

The Mediterranean Posidonia Network and it’s members would like to thank the Govern de les Illes Balears for making such an event possible in the capital of Europe. A Coordination between countries in the north and southern Mediterranean is a necessity.

Members of the were present Office français de la biodiversité Whitesand Solutions MedPAN-network WWF-France IUCN BlueSeeds

MEP François Alfonsi (Officiel) & Tonino Picula from the also supported the event.

European Parliament

08/03/2023

The Mediterranean Posidonia Network Coordination Taskforce had the opportunity to present the Roadmap to protect 100% in the Mediterranean by 2030 in the European Parliament thanks to the opportunity of Eurodeputy MEP François Alfonsi (Officiel) & Tonino Picula from the /EFAParty.

The result of this meeting was to engage with the to help the Mediterranean Posidonia Network to continue working towards more in all countries in the EU and the rest of the countries.⁣⁣

In addition, the Mediterranean Posidonia Network Coordination Taskforce visited the Govern de les Illes Balears Office to share further details of our roadmap and common goals.

All in all, our visit generated great interest to find concrete solutions for the comming years!

Office français de la biodiversité Conselleria de la Mar i del Cicle de l’Aigua WWF-France IUCN BlueSeeds Whitesand Solutions MedPAN-network SPA RAC

08/03/2023

🌱The the Mediterranean Posidonia Network Coordination Taskforce visited the Balearic Islands EU Office, through the Conselleria de la Mar i del Cicle de l’Aigua of the Govern de les Illes Balears to share further details of our roadmap and common goals.

All in all, our visit generated great interest to find concrete solutions for the comming years! 🌱🌱🤝🚤⛵️

Great interest of the concrete solutions proposed by the Mediterranean Posidonia Network. 🌱🌱🤝🚤⛵️


MedPAN-network WWF-France BlueSeeds Whitesand Solutions IUCN

01/03/2023

Today is world seagrass day!
Work of the Mediterranean Posidonia Network for next week in Brussels ! 🌱🏝️🌱🏝️

A Mediterranean Posidonia Network Roadmap: a real step towards Sustainability

Start: Tuesday, March 07, 2023 • 1:00 PM
European Parliament,
Room SPAAK 1C47 •
Rue Wiertz 60, Brussels, 1047 BE

This event within the context of the Seagrass Awareness Month, together with the Balearic Islands Government and the OFB, will be focused on the deployment of a Roadmap for a Mediterranean Posidonia Network. Experts will give analysis on the biological status of this critical Mediterranean habitat,....

01/03/2023

Posidonia Day 🌱🌱🌱⚓️⛵️⛵️⛵️⛵️⛵️

01/03/2023

This day is an opportunity to highlight the importance of the role of seagrass meadows in decelerating the decline of biodiversity and slowing down climate change.

Their contribution to the balance of many ecosystems is enormous. Their destruction of these meadows by human activities, particularly anchoring, means that countless marine species are deprived of a place to live, reproduce and feed. Seagrass meadows are also carbon sinks maintaining hundreds of years old stocks of carbon. Their destruction releases the carbon into the atmosphere and accelerates global warming.

BlueSeeds is working to protect them—Mediterranean Posidonia oceanica meadows in particular—through promising projects:

⛵ Our mooring management tool BlueMooring enables marine protected area managers to raise boaters’ awareness of the presence of Posidonia meadows in the area where they wish to moor;

🔍 The exploration of business models to facilitate the implementation of mooring infrastructures in the Mediterranean, integrating a financing mechanism based on the protection of Posidonia meadows to generate carbon credits;

👥 BlueSeeds is also a member of the Mediterranean Posidonia Network which brings together different stakeholders concerned with protecting Posidonia oceanica and working to prevent its future degradation.

15/02/2023

23/11/2022

Webinar on to protect by Yachting Pages Media Group with participation of the Mediterranean Posidonia Network.

All information in the post below👇🏼👇🏼👇🏼👇🏼

Yachting Pages is hosting a webinar with French government organisations and anchoring mobile app DONIA announcing new French laws on anchoring around Posidoni