by John Davis | Aug 15, 2002
The seafloor – sandy or rocky; flat or sloped; seamount or canyon – provides the foundation for multiple processes within MPAs, including the distribution of flora and fauna. However, MPA practitioners have generally had only patchy knowledge, at best, of...
by John Davis | Aug 15, 2002
Editor’s note: Juan Bezaury Creel, author of the following perspective piece, is an environmental policy associate for The Nature Conservancy – Mexico, an NGO. In this piece, he describes an innovative effort in Mexico to protect the Sian Ka’an...
by John Davis | Aug 15, 2002
Canada passes law to help create representative system of marine parks In June, Canada passed a bill to facilitate creation of a representative system of “national marine conservation areas”, or NMCAs, to be overseen by Parks Canada, the federal parks...
by John Davis | Aug 15, 2002
Dear MPA News: Bill Ballantine’s attempt to clarify terms for marine area conservation falls short of the mark (MPA News 4:1). Terminology has already been pretty much worked out in the past decade. To use the term “reserve” to mean only a fully...
