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2024/019: IPBES Spatial Planning Assessment: Call for Offers to Host the Technical Support Unit

UN Launches First-Ever Live Map of Large Mammal Migrations

Today, a groundbreaking online map was launched showing the migration paths of land animals around the world. An international team of over 80 scientists has collaborated to create the first-ever interactive migration map of hooved mammals such as antelopes, guanacos and zebras, that routinely travel large distances at different times in the year. Such animals are collectively called “ungulates".  Known as the Atlas of Ungulate Migration, the tool uses the best available science to provide up-to-date migration maps.

Kuwait Joins International Efforts to Protect Marine Turtles

1 September 2024 - In a significant step to increase environmental conservation, the State of Kuwait has officially become a Signatory to the Memorandum of Understanding on the Con

2024/018: Election of the chair and vice-chair of the scientific council and its sessional committee

In accordance with the Rules of Procedure of the CMS Scientific Council and its Sessional Committee, elections of the Chair and Vice-Chair of the Scientific Council have been conducted by correspon

2024/017: Migratory Species and National Biodiversity Strategies and Action Plans (NBSAPs)

The Secretariat of the Convention on the Conservation of Migratory Species of Wild Animals (CMS) is pleased to inform Parties about guidance documents and other tools t

Actions to Strengthen Marine Turtle Conservation agreed at UN Meeting in Tanzania

Governments, scientific experts and stakeholders gathered over four days in an international meeting that ended today to discuss pressing conservation issues for marine turtles in the Indian Ocean and South-East Asia region.  The 9th Meeting of the Signatory States to the Memorandum of Understanding on the Conservation and Management of Marine Turtles and their Habitats of the Indian Ocean and South-East Asia (IOSEA Marine Turtles MOU) agreed on a number of conservation actions. 

2024/016: Cumulative Effects Assessments

Decision 14.204 requests Parties to:  

2024/015: Host of COP15

The Secretariat of the Convention on the Conservation of Migratory Species of Wild Animals (CMS) is pleased to announce that Brazil will host the 15th meeting of the Co

2024/014: Junior Professional Officer

The Secretariat would like to draw attention to Resolution 14.2 on “Finance and Ad

2024/013: Deep-Seabed Mineral Exploitation Activities and Migratory Species

Decision 14.51 (a) requests Parties to “inform the Secretariat by 30 June 2024 of any relevant scientific or other information, including any EIA guidance, that con