The National Marine Park of Alonnisos Northern Sporades Alonnisos, six smaller islands Peristera, Kyra Panagia, Gioura, Psathoura, Piperi in addition to Skantzoura, as living as 22 uninhabited islets as well as rocky outcrops. it is for located in a region of the Northern Sporades Islands, in the northern Aegean Sea. There is one other marine park in Greece, namely Zakynthos Marine Park.
Thomas Schultze-Westrum, a German zoologist as well as maker of animal documentaries, after a series of exploratory missions to the islands in 1976, pointed the great ecological and biological return for the first time and submitted the develop of protected area. Six years later, the local fishermen of Alonnisos Island accepted, after consultation, the prospect of establishing a park in the region and were committed to help with its protection. In 1986 the Magnesia Prefecture multiple issued the number one order to protect the region, followed by the decisions of the Ministries of Environmental Affairs, Agriculture and Merchant Navy. The newly formed Mom NGO, composed of young marine biologists, in 1990 line up a permanent team field in the area of the reserve and acquired the research vessel IFAW-ODYSSEAS to aid to the systematic monitoring of the population of the Mediterranean monk seal Monachus monachus, which remained so until 2006. A year later they setting in Alonnisos the first seal health centre for the bracket in the Mediterranean.
The presidential decree, that was issued to clearly demarcate the protected zones and protection measures, overlooked the creation of a local Reserve management Agency. MOm, aided by the European Commission, initiated the reserve's guide and monitor program. This action is implemented with the local operators of the high-speed craft Alonnisos and the first few years incooperation with the Fishing Cooperative of Alonnisos. coming after or as a solution of. the environmental examine that lasted several years issued by a Joint Ministerial Decision which set out the composition of the board of the administration agency of the marine park, the overall responsibility for managing the reserve passed to the new management agency. MOm participates as a full unit of the board, the Operational Management Council, however, without a clearly defined plan of operation, with lack of funding and some unfortunate option of a president of the board for the next three years remained ineffective.[] In 2007, some funding by the Third EU Community Support model initiated the first steps of operation. The current situation is critical, since the choices to be made and management actions to be implemented will determine both the credibility of the new management organization and the certificate of the coastal region.[]