A MARINE protected area is an internationally recognized area of ocean (or of land and ocean combined) where human activities such as tourism, development and fishing are managed to ensure sustainability.
Managed marine protected areas are an effective tool in coastal ocean conservation. They are also ripe to be included in investment structures.
The Yavusa Navakavu yesterday marked its 21st anniversary of the Navakavu Marine Protected Area (MPA). Click on the link below to read the full article.
Vatu-i-Ra Conservation Park has been dubbed as Fiji"s biggest conservation park covering an area of 110 square kilometres. Click on the link below to read the full article.
they can't do their job of protecting aquatic ecosystems if people fail to respect their boundaries. Click on the link below to read the full article.
Ahead of the November 4 New Caledonian referendum for independence from French rule, France has made a strong commitment to the Indo-Pacific region with financial, political, and on-the-ground support and said a planned development bank would focus on climate change in the region.Click
An opinion piece published in the New York Times in March 2018 " "Bigger Is Not Better for Ocean Conservation" " raised anew the issue of whether MPA designations should focus on large offshore sites or smaller inshore ones.
A team of Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute scientists is currently researching coral reefs in the Phoenix Islands Protected Area (PIPA), the Pacific Oceanscape"s foundation site. The reefs here have bleached and died for almost a century but have always recovered.
Designated large-scale marine protected areas (LSMPAs, 100,000 or more square kilometers) constitute over two-thirds of the approximately 6.6% of the ocean... Although LSMPAs have received support among scientists and conservation bodies for wilderness protection, regional ecological connect
The report in the journal Nature Climate Change concludes many of more than 8,000 places labeled as marine protected areas will be overtaken by effects of climate change without major reductions in carbon-dioxide releases worldwide.Click on the link below to read the full article.
