Important marine mammal area

Important marine mammal areas (IMMA) are discrete portions of habitat, important to marine mammal species, that have the potential to be delineated and managed for conservation.[1] They are identified by a task force under the auspices of the International Committee on Marine Mammal Protected Areas (ICMMPA) and the International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN).[2]

Several workshops have been held to define worldwide the IMMAs in each region.

  • The first workshop concerned the Mediterranean sea [3]
  • The second workshop worked on the Pacific islands region [4]
  • The third IMMA workshop region concerned the coast of India, Bangladesh, Thailand and Vietnam in the North to the vast Indonesian archipelago in the south[5]
  • The fourth workshop worked on the Southern ocean and sub antarctic islands [6].

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