Mexico"s government has created the largest ocean reserve in North America around a Pacific archipelago regarded as its crown jewel...Fishing, mining and new hotels will be prohibited in the "biologically spectacular" Revillagigedo archipelago.Click on the link below to read the full article.
Sweeping new protections for Antarctica's Ross Sea will come into effect on Friday 1 December.
The current issue of Marine Ecosystems and Management, the sister newsletter of MPA News, features a review of the latest research on ocean plastics, with an audience of ocean managers in mind.
Marine Protected Areas (MPAs) " areas of the ocean set aside for long-term conservation aims " are the only mainstream conservation-focussed, area-based measure to increase the quality and extent of ocean protection.Click on the link below to access the full brief.
A network of protected and locally managed marine areas that began as a tool to ensure food security could also increase Fiji's resilience in the face of climate change.Click on the link below to read the full article.
Twenty four representatives from the Cakaudrove, Bua and Macuata provinces converged on Bua Lomanikoro to learn about better managing their marine protected areas.
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There is growing concern that the world"s oceans are in crisis because of climate change, overfishing, pollution and other stresses.
Federal regulators have indicated they may open some marine national monuments to commercial fishing. Researchers who have studied these and adjacent areas discuss their value and the potential impacts of a change in protected status.Click on the link below to read the full story.
A marine scientist at Hawaii University is warning pristine marine conservation areas are under threat from the Trump administration's review of federal protection for national monument parks.Click on the link below to read the full story.
In the 18 years that MPA News has been in publication, we have asked practitioners for lessons learned, and practices developed. We have published numerous tips on how to work more efficiently or effectively.
