SC/69A/EM/01/Rev1  

Document Number

SC/69A/EM/01/Rev1

Full Title

Update from the Conservation Committee Working Group on Cetaceans and Ecosystem Functioning

Author

Submitted by the Chair of the CC Working Group on Cetacean and Ecosystem Functioning

Authors Summary

The Commission endorsed at IWC68 all recommendations of the socio-economic workshop. The Conservation Committee working group on cetacean and ecosystem functioning established an advisory group to develop Terms of Reference (ToR) and a tender to contract a consultancy to develop a pilot project. The pilot project is aimed to assess the socio-economic values of a single (or set of) species or populations of cetaceans to the well-being of people and the rest of nature. A proposal of selected candidates for species/population to be assessed are being presented to this IWC Scientific Committee meeting for endorsement.

Publisher

IWC

Keywords

Publication Year

2023

Abstract

The Commission endorsed at IWC68 all recommendations of the socio-economic workshop. The Conservation Committee working group on cetacean and ecosystem functioning established an advisory group to develop Terms of Reference (ToR) and a tender to contract a consultancy to develop a pilot project. The pilot project is aimed to assess the socio-economic values of a single (or set of) species or populations of cetaceans to the well-being of people and the rest of nature. A proposal of selected candidates for species/population to be assessed are being presented to the IWC Scientific Committee meeting for endorsement.