{"id":11659,"date":"2025-12-09T10:19:00","date_gmt":"2025-12-09T10:19:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.medconsortium.org\/2025\/12\/%f0%9f%8c%bf-how-can-we-adapt-the-management-of-protected-natural-areas-to-climate-change-in-the-mediterranean\/"},"modified":"2026-05-11T15:19:15","modified_gmt":"2026-05-11T15:19:15","slug":"%f0%9f%8c%bf-how-can-we-adapt-the-management-of-protected-natural-areas-to-climate-change-in-the-mediterranean","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.medconsortium.org\/en\/2025\/12\/%f0%9f%8c%bf-how-can-we-adapt-the-management-of-protected-natural-areas-to-climate-change-in-the-mediterranean\/","title":{"rendered":"\ud83c\udf3f How can we adapt the management of protected natural areas to climate change in the Mediterranean?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">The Mediterranean Biodiversity Consortium (MBC) is releasing an operational note based on the work of its Think &amp; Do Tank, dedicated to this major challenge for protected area managers in the Mediterranean basin.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">\ud83e\udde0 The Think &amp; Do Tank, driven by the MBC, is an informal platform for reflection and exchange that brings together members of the Consortium and its regional and national partners to:<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">\u2705 Thinking about emerging concepts related to biodiversity preservation;<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">\u2705 Build a common position on these issues ;<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">\u2705 And above all, to help them become operational in the field.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Within this framework, the T&amp;DT has focused its work on adapting management to climate change, including the identification of courses of action to be implemented in the Mediterranean.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">\ud83d\udcd8 This note presents the main climate challenges, identifies three essential levers for action &#8211; knowledge, planning, governance &#8211; and proposes concrete recommendations for strengthening the resilience of Mediterranean protected sites.<\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_11644\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-11644\" style=\"width: 1024px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-10577 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/www.medconsortium.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/salicornes-annuelles-N-trace-chacal_Antoine-Gazaix_TDV-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.medconsortium.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/salicornes-annuelles-N-trace-chacal_Antoine-Gazaix_TDV-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.medconsortium.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/salicornes-annuelles-N-trace-chacal_Antoine-Gazaix_TDV-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.medconsortium.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/salicornes-annuelles-N-trace-chacal_Antoine-Gazaix_TDV-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.medconsortium.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/salicornes-annuelles-N-trace-chacal_Antoine-Gazaix_TDV.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-11644\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Antoine Gazaix \/ Tour du Valat<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">\u2728 In collaboration with R\u00e9serves Naturelles de France (RNF), we&#8217;re taking the next step:<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">\u27a1\ufe0f for the first time, the Natur&#8217;Adapt method will be tested in the Mediterranean, at one of the pilot sites of the RESCOM project.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Developed by RNF, this method helps managers analyze the future, identify vulnerabilities and plan actions to adapt the management of natural areas.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">\ud83d\udd0d Why now?<\/span><\/strong><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Because the Mediterranean is warming 20% faster than the global average, and the impacts &#8211; drought, erosion, hydrological disruption &#8211; are multiplying. Anticipating and adapting management is no longer an option: it&#8217;s a strategic necessity to protect our ecosystems and the communities that depend on them.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">\ud83d\udcc4 Download the complete note: https: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.medconsortium.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Technical-note-Adapting-the-management-of-protected-natural-areas-to-climate-change.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">HERE<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.medconsortium.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Technical-note-Adapting-the-management-of-protected-natural-areas-to-climate-change.pdf\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-10520 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.medconsortium.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Technical-note-Adapting-the-management-of-protected-natural-areas-to-climate-change.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"376\" height=\"532\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Mediterranean Biodiversity Consortium (MBC) is releasing an operational note based on the work of its Think &amp; Do Tank, dedicated to this major challenge for protected area managers in the Mediterranean basin. \ud83e\udde0 The Think &amp; Do Tank, driven by the MBC, is an informal platform for reflection and exchange that brings together members&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":11644,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"_kad_post_transparent":"default","_kad_post_title":"default","_kad_post_layout":"default","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"default","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"default","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[55],"tags":[56,68,57],"class_list":["post-11659","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-climate-change","tag-naturadapt-2","tag-natural-areas"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.medconsortium.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/salicornes-annuelles-N-trace-chacal_Antoine-Gazaix_TDV.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.medconsortium.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11659","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.medconsortium.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.medconsortium.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.medconsortium.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.medconsortium.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11659"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.medconsortium.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11659\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11683,"href":"https:\/\/www.medconsortium.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11659\/revisions\/11683"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.medconsortium.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11644"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.medconsortium.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11659"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.medconsortium.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11659"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.medconsortium.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11659"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}