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6. Acknowledgments
We wish to warmly thank the following colleagues who graciously agreed to participate to our
survey to identify EBSAs in the Mediterranean Sea: Vera Agostini, The Nature Conservancy, USA;
Vittorio Barale, Joint Research Centre, Ispra, Italy; Mohammed Nejmeddine Bradai, INSTM, Sfax,
Tunisia; Ana Cañadas and Ricardo Sagarminaga, Alnitak, Madrid, Spain; Carles Carboneras,
Consultant to the Ministerio de Medio Ambiente y Medio Rural y Marino, Madrid, Spain; Paolo
Casale, IUCN Marine Turtle Specialist Group and WWF Italy, Rome, Ali Cemal Gücü, Middle East
Technical University, Erdemli, Turkey; Simone Panigada, Tethys Research Institute, Milano, Italy;
Xavier Pastor, Oceana Europe, Madrid, Spain; Fabrizio Serena, IUCN Shark Specialist Group and
ARPAT, Italy; Sergi Tudela, WWF International Mediterranean Program Office, Barcelona, Spain.
We also gratefully acknowledge the support we have received from: Jeff Ardron, Ben Best, Kristina
Gjerde, Rainer Froese, David Hyrenbach, Dani Kerem, Fiorenza Micheli, Christine Pergent, Chedly
Rais, Isabelle Taupier-Letage, and Joaquín Tintoré.
