The Tehran Convention is the first regional legally binding instrument signed by all five Caspian littoral states. It serves as an overarching governance framework which lays down the general requirements and the institutional mechanism for environmental protection and sustainable development in the Caspian Sea region. The effective implementation of the Tehran Convention and its Protocols will...

The Convention for the Protection of the Mediterranean Sea Against Pollution (the Barcelona Convention) was adopted on 16 February 1976 by the Conference of Plenipotentiaries of the Coastal States of the Mediterranean Region for the Protection of the Mediterranean Sea, held in Barcelona. The Convention entered into force on 12 February 1978.

The original Convention has been modified by amendments...

ASCOBANS was concluded in 1991 as the Agreement on the Conservation of Small Cetaceans of the Baltic and North Seas (ASCOBANS) under the auspices of the Convention on Migratory Species (CMS or Bonn Convention) and entered into force in 1994. In February 2008, an extension of the agreement area came into force which changed the name to "Agreement on the Conservation of Small Cetaceans of the Baltic...

The convention provides an important framework through which national policy makers and resource managers implement national control measures in the protection and development of the marine and coastal environment of the WACAF Region (West and Central African Region)

The principal purpose of the Convention is to establish a regional cooperation framework to encourage and facilitate the sustainable development of marine and coastal resources of the countries of the Northeast Pacific for the benefit of present and future generations of the region.

The United States Court of Appeals found that the Marine Mammals Protection Act requires the National Marine Fisheries Service to take measures to attain the 'least practicable adverse impact' standard before allowing an incidental take of marine mammals, in particular the sonar activities would have negative impact on marine mammal species.

In this case, the plaintiffs were the resident marine mammals which inhabit the waters in and around the Tañon Strait and were represented by their Stewards and an NGO established for the welfare of the fisher folk. The plaintiffs were challenging the decision authorizing the oil exploration activities in the Tañon Strait.

The plaintiff challenged the decision on the basis that it had an important...