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UNESCO’s MAB program approves the extension of Jeju and Menorca biosphere reserves The International Co-ordinating Council of UNESCO’s MAB Programme meeting in Paris from 17 to 21 June added 18 new sites in 12 countries to the World Network of Biosphere Reserves, which now numbers 701 biosphere reserves in 124 countries around the globe. It also approved the extension of eight existing biosphere reserves, four of which are members of our Network.

Zero Plastic: call for action. EuroMAB Conference Dublin 2019.The April 2019 EuroMAB Conference in Dublin (2-5 April 2019) set the stage for members of the Zero Plastic Working Group to gather along with other conference participants for the Tackling Plastic Pollution Workshop. Rooted in this workshop, we are launching a global call for Biosphere Reserves to join us in facing the challenge of plastic pollution, with the aim of minimizing the harmful consequences stemming from the abusive use of plastic.

Lanzarote and Menorca close the commemoration of the 25th anniversary of the biosphere reserve declaration (March 2019)The Cabildo of Lanzarote and the Insular Council of Menorca closed on Monday, March 11, with the reading of a joint statement, the commemoration of the 25th anniversary of the declaration of both biosphere reserves (Unesco). As a result of this twinning and the will of both administrations to commemorate the 25th anniversary, different acts and joint activities by the two islands have been carried out during 2018 and 2019.

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VIII Meeting of the World Network of Island and Coastal Biosphere Reserves

This event took place on the island of Menorca from the 22th to the 26th of May 2018.

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