SOMAR is in the implementation phase of CICAS – Center for Interpretation of Cetaceans and Acoustics SOMAR in Lagos, focusing on the areas of conservation / environmental education, ecology, oceanography and bioacoustics.

This project is co-funded by the Operational Program CRESC ALGARVE 2020 by the European Social Fund ( FSE ) for the creation and capacitation of the SOMAR Center, by the operation +CO3SO – Social Entrepreneurship (GAL), in the priority axis “Affirming social and territorial cohesion”.

The main priority of the project is to develop actions of environmental education, research, community involvement and events related to sustainability for the conservation of species of marine mammals that use the Algarve Coast and the surrounding marine environment.

See the project’s fact sheet HERE.