Alnitak Marine Research Centre	Spain
	Blue World Institute of Marine Research and Conservation	Croatia
	Cetacean Alliance	Supranational
	CIRCE Conservation Information and Research on Cetaceans	Spain
	Delphis Mediterranean Dolphin Conservation	Italy
	MOm Hellenic Society for the Protection of the Monk Seal	Greece
	Morigenos Marine Mammal Research and Conservation Society	Slovenia
	Oceana	Supranational
	OceanCare	Switzerland
	Pelagos Cetacean Research Institute	Greece
	Tethys Research Institute	Italy
	WDCS The Whale and Dolphin Conservation Society	Supranational
	WWF Greece	Greece

This call for action is consistent with the recommendations to preserve marine biodiversity made in UNEP’s Mediterranean Action Plan, and with the strong calls for the conservation of Mediterranean common dolphins made by the Parties to the UNEP/CMS Agreement on the Conservation of Cetaceans in the Black Sea, Mediterranean Sea and Contiguous Atlantic Area (ACCOBAMS), also ratified by Greece.

This call is endorsed by the following experts:

Giuseppe Notarbartolo di Sciara, Ph.D.

Chair, Scientific Committee of ACCOBAMS (UNEP/CMS Agreement on the Conservation of Cetaceans in the Black Sea, Mediterranan Sea and Continguous Atlantic Area)

Regional Coordinator for the Mediterranean, IUCN World Commission on Protected Areas - Marine

Randall R. Reeves, Ph.D.

Chair, IUCN Cetacean Specialist Group - Species Survival Commission