by John Davis | Dec 15, 2000
Dozens of fishers in the Galápagos Islands, angered by resource managers’ refusal to expand a lobster quota, rioted in mid-November, looting and destroying buildings including the administrative building of the Galápagos National Park. Eventually halted by...
by John Davis | Dec 15, 2000
President Clinton has designated a vast marine protected area around the coral-laden Northwestern Hawaiian Islands (NWHI) — an MPA that now ranks as the largest protected area (either terrestrial or marine) in the US and the second largest MPA in the world....
by John Davis | Dec 15, 2000
WWF, an international conservation NGO, has published an information package designed to summarize in lay terms the scientific case for no-take marine reserves. Composed of a book, slide show, and overhead presentation, the “toolkit” is geared toward...
by John Davis | Dec 15, 2000
The discovery of three rare coelacanths in a South African marine protected area has led the national government to place emergency restrictions on access to the MPA. Officials are now examining how the fishes’ presence could be harnessed to increase tourism and...
