Marine Connectivity Conservation “Rules of Thumb” for MPA and MPA Network Design

Marine Connectivity Conservation “Rules of Thumb” for MPA and MPA Network Design

by | Feb 8, 2022 | Past Webinars

This webinar originally aired on February 8, 2022. Presented by: Barbara Lausche of Mote Marine Laboratory and the IUCN-WCPA Marine Connectivity Working Group and Mary Collins of the Center for Large Landscape Conservation. To help guide, enhance, and restore ecological connectivity of the ocean, the IUCN WCPA has released a new publication entitled “Marine Connectivity Conservation ‘Rules of Thumb’ for MPA and MPA Network Design.” This publication provides broadly applicable guidance on connectivity for MPA managers. This webinar will highlight several of the 13 ‘Rules of Thumb’ and how they can help guide integration of connectivity into conservation activities – ranging from interactions across the land-sea interface to the movement of currents and migratory species around the world and across political boundaries.

Marine Connectivity Conservation “Rules of Thumb” for MPA and MPA Network Design

Never let a good failure go to waste: Learning from conservation failure

by | Jan 25, 2022 | Past Webinars

This webinar originally aired on 25 January 2022. Presented by: Allison Catalano from work conducted at Imperial College London. How does your organization handle failure? Failure or outcomes that are less than successful are not uncommon in conservation initiatives, yet we rarely discuss failure in systematic ways that make use of the learning opportunities failure presents. Here we will discuss alternate ways to think about failure and the individual and interpersonal dynamics that make it challenging.

Supporting self-financing mechanisms in MPAs

Supporting self-financing mechanisms in MPAs

by | Nov 17, 2021 | Past Webinars

This webinar originally aired on 17 November 2021. Presented by: Guillaume Le Port and Nastazia Femmami of BlueSeeds. The webinar described two support programs: visitor fees and concession agreements. These programs empower and build MPA staff’s capacity to manage their site or network’s local financing mechanisms over the long term.

Marine Connectivity Conservation “Rules of Thumb” for MPA and MPA Network Design

MPAs as Part of the Climate Solution: The Role of Blue Carbon

by | Oct 26, 2021 | Past Webinars

This webinar originally aired on 26 October 2021. Presented by: Sara Hutto of the Greater Farallones National Marine Sanctuary. Well-managed marine protected areas (MPAs) protect valuable blue carbon habitats and processes, and they must be included in global and national mitigation and adaptation responses to climate change.

Marine Connectivity Conservation “Rules of Thumb” for MPA and MPA Network Design

Turning the tide of parachute science

by | Oct 21, 2021 | Past Webinars

This webinar originally aired on 21 October 2021. Presented by: Paris Stefanoudis of the University of Oxford and Sheena Talma of the Nekton Foundation. Parachute science is the practice whereby international scientists, typically from higher-income countries, conduct field studies in another country, typically of lower income, and then complete the research in their home country without any further effective communication and engagement with others from that nation.