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In Oceania, there is a resurgence of ocean management that incorporates customary local practices and governance.

In Tonga, no-take marine reserves designed with, and managed by, local communities are predicted to achieve a conservation impact... The result suggests that community-based marine management can be highly effective, in this case because reserves are located near villages that exert fis

Funding opportunity from the US Fish and Wildlife Service under its Marine Turtle Conservation Fund, intended to fund conservation in turtle ranges that are outside of the US and its territories. Click on the link below for further information. 

Surveys commissioned by the team managing Marae Moana reveal that little is known within the Cook Islands community about the marine park covering our whole ocean. Click on the link below to read the full article. 

Gagaifolevao is one of six Lefaga district villages intent on regenerating and protecting coral reefs for the sake of their children, but also in a money making venture to uplift the community at large. Click on the link below to read the full article. 

When they first set out to follow grey reef sharks around the Republic of the Marshall Islands (RMI), Darcy Bradley and her colleagues intended to survey their movement in the protected waters there. What they found was a disturbing development for the Pacific island nation.

After months of preparations, the campaign – more passionately known as ‘Guardians: Tausi Lou Fa’asinomaga”– will be based at Manono-Uta Primary School throughout this week...Click on the link below to the read the full article.   

The management of Raja Ampat conservation area in Papua was recently lauded by countries joined in the Coral Triangle Initiative on Coral Reefs, Fisheries, and Food Security (CTI-CFF). Click on the link below to read the full article. 

Join us Thursday, October 11, 10 am EDT/7 am PDT/2 pm UTC/3 pm British Summer Time for a webinar on Implications of climate change for managing coastal and marine protected habitats and species, co-sponsored by the NOAA National MPA Center, MPA News, and the EBM Tools Network (co-c

Mounting scientific evidence is showing how Earth’s largest organisms can join forces with some of the smallest to combat climate change. Click on the link below to read the full article.