PIM Initiative

PRESERVE THE SMALL ISLANDS OF THE MEDITERRANEAN AND MACARONESIA

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PIM Initiative is an international NGO whose objective is to preserve the Mediterranean and Macaronesian islands of less than 1000 hectares, thanks to concrete conservation measures in the field, and the networking of managers and experts at the international level.

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5 April 2025

CAIPIM : Know, Act, Innovate to Protect the Small Islands of the Mediterranean and Macaronesia

The Mediterranean-Macaronesian Basin hotspot, with an area of 2,085,292 km2, is the second largest hotspot in the world. The more than 12,000 islands and islets in the Mediterranean-Macaronesian Basin hotspot contain a unique constellation of ecosystems and species of high biogeographical interest, often rare, threatened or endangered on the near continent. Because of the unique […]

4 April 2025

Combating invasive species on the southern islets of France

Invasive species are one of the main threats to island environments. PIM Initiative has therefore been commissioned by the French Biodiversity Office to draw up a strategy to combat invasive species that have a negative impact on heritage seabird species on the islands and islets of the Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur (PACA) region in 2018, and then […]

3 April 2025

Co-management of Grand Rouveau island

The Grand Rouveau island, with a surface area of 6.5 hectares, is located in the Embiez archipelago, off the commune of Six-Fours-les-Plages (Var, France). Following the acquisition of the site by the Conservatoire du littoral in 2000 and after more than ten years of action on the island, PIM Initiative officially took over the management […]

2 April 2025

RESCOM : Towards greater resilience of Mediterranean ecosystems

The first initiative of the Mediterranean Biodiversity Consortium (MBC), a coalition of regional environmental organisations launched in 2021 in partnership with the Conservatoire du Littoral, the RESCOM project aims to improve the environmental and social resilience of the Mediterranean basin by implementing Nature-based Solutions (NBS) through an integrated, multi-partner, multi-ecosystem approach. Launched in 2023 and […]

1 April 2025

Atlas of small Mediterranean islands

The Encyclopaedic Atlas of the Small Islands of the Western Mediterranean project was born in 2012, during a meeting of the members of the Research and Management Committee of the PIM Initiative, an international programme for the promotion of and assistance in the management of Mediterranean island micro-territories. The objective is to make all available […]

31 March 2025

ICO Solutions: Training for conservation!

Initiated in 2021 by the Agence de l’eau Rhône – Méditerranée – Corse, the Conservatoire du littoral, the Aix-Marseille-Provence Metropolitan Chamber of Commerce and Industry, under the high patronage of the Ministry of Ecological Transition, the ICO Solutions (Islands, Coasts, Oceans) approach is reflected through various activities: ICO is an approach that aims to support […]

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4 March 2025

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New protocols for Riou island (Marseille) !

A multidisciplinary team made up of agents from the Calanques National Park, experts (AGIR écologique, IMBE) and employees of PIM Initiative spent the day of Monday, March 3, surveying the island of Riou. The objective was to adjust the naturalist monitoring protocols to be implemented in different biological compartments (seabird colonies, flora, reptiles, invertebrates, etc.), […]

17 February 2025

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Feedback on the co-management of the Grand Rouveau in 2024!

Jeanne and Nicolas, eco-guards recruited by PIM Initiative in 2024: “Our role is to strengthen surveillance of the Grand Rouveau island and its public maritime domain from May to October. During the summer period, we carry out patrols to raise awareness among pleasure boaters at sea about the fragility of Posidonia seagrass meadows and the […]

18 January 2025

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January 17, 2025: the CAIPIM project is officially launched!

CAIPIM (Know, Act and Innovate to Protect the Small Islands of the Mediterranean and Macaronesia) is the new project led by the Conservatoire du littoral and Initiative PIM, in close collaboration with the Mediterranean Institute of Marine and Continental Biodiversity and Ecology (IMBE), and supported by the FFEM and the Rhône Méditerranée Corse Water Agency! […]

5 November 2023

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4th Symposium of Mediterranean small islands Lipari – Italie

From October 16 to 19, 2023After the 3rd Conference on the Small Mediterranean Islands organized in Bizerte (Tunisia) in 2012, PIM Initiative and the Conservatoire du littoral organized the 4th Conference on the Small Mediterranean Islands in Lipari, in Sicily (Italy), from October 16 to 19, 2023, in partnership with the NESOS association, and thanks […]

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The objective is to make accessible to all the knowledge available on these small territories, dealing with their evolution, their heritage (natural, historical, cultural, etc.) and their management in the face of the pressures exerted on them, in order to draw up a strategy for the conservation of island territories aimed at being carried by the countries of the Mediterranean basin with the support of the PIM initiative.

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