by John Davis | Aug 15, 2006
Marine protected areas are often designated to protect sites of high biodiversity or scenic character, like coral reefs. But many fish species that inhabit such places as adults have rarely spent their entire lifetimes there. “Nursery grounds” such as...
by John Davis | Aug 15, 2006
Editor’s note: The effort to secure strong protective measures for the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands (NWHI) in US waters, culminating in President George W. Bush’s proclamation of the 362,000-km2 NWHI Marine National Monument (MPA News 8:1), involved many...
by John Davis | Aug 15, 2006
For decades, the 344,400-km2 Great Barrier Reef Marine Park in Australia was widely cited as “the world’s largest MPA”. Then, in June 2006, the US designated the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands (NWHI) Marine National Monument, covering 362,000 km2 of...
by John Davis | Aug 15, 2006
New website for Mediterranean MPA managers MedPAN, an EU-funded initiative to network MPA managers in the Mediterranean, has launched a website, at http://www.medpan.org. The website, available in English and French, features a directory of Mediterranean MPAs by...
