This webinar originally aired on Wednesday, September 11, 2024.
Presented by: Jenna Sullivan-Stack of Oregon State University, Steven Mana‘oakamai Johnson of Cornell University, Sylvaine Giakoumi of Sicily Marine Centre, and Beth Pike of Marine Conservation Institute
Description: Marine Protected Areas (MPAs) are widely used around the world and continue to be a key tool for conserving biodiversity in the ocean. Understanding how effective these areas are for both nature and people is crucial, both for ensuring needs are met and for understanding local to global progress towards goals for a healthy and productive ocean. Each MPA has a contribution to make, yet there are many different types of MPAs around the world. How can we understand and track different MPAs and the benefits they provide for biodiversity and people?
In this webinar, experts from around the world will share insights from assessments of MPAs using The MPA Guide. The MPA Guide is a science-based, policy relevant framework that provides a common language about the expected biodiversity outcomes of MPAs based on their Stage of Establishment and Level of Protection considering key Enabling Conditions. Users from managers to decision-makers to researchers have applied The MPA Guide across more than 10 countries and territories to date. In this webinar, leaders from some of these assessments will share lessons learned and key needs for MPAs in these contexts, including the largest 100 MPAs globally. Speakers include:
- Dr. Jenna Sullivan-Stack (Oregon State University) introducing the MPA Guide andcross-context overview
- Dr. Steven Mana‘oakamai Johnson (Cornell University) sharing insights from MPAs in the Mariana Islands
- Dr. Sylvaine Giakoumi (Sicily Marine Centre, Stazione Zoologica Anton Dohrn) discussing a recent assessment of Greece’s MPAs
- Beth Pike (Marine Conservation Institute’s MPAtlas) sharing findings from a recent paper in Conservation Letters that assessed the 100 largest MPAs globally.
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