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The WWF Mediterranean Program’s goal is to conserve and restore the natural wealth of the Mediterranean and promote the sustainable use of natural resources. The Programme focuses primarily on the conservation of forest, freshwater and marine ecosystems, promoting the establishment of protected areas and resource use practices to maintain biodiversity and ecological functions that support human needs and livelihoods. Geographic focus is on the Southern and Eastern Mediterranean ecoregions.
WWF Mediterranean Programme focuses on the following thematic areas:
• Forests – Landscape level planning, establishment and management of protected areas; forest sustainable management and certification; landscape forest restoration.
• Marine and Coastal – Seascape level planning, establishment and management of multipurpose management areas, including protected areas and no-take-zones; ecosystem based fisheries.
• Freshwater – Integrated river basin management; water resource policies; freshwater conservation capacity building.
• Climate Change – Climate adaptation strategies at land/seascape level.
• Capacity building – for civil society organizations working on sustainable development issues.