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Seychelles project combines ocean planning, climate change adaptation, and debt restructure
In Seychelles, a unique project is underway. It links a restructuring of some of the island nation’s international debt with a financial mechanism to support adaptation to climate change, namely through improved marine and coastal ecosystem management. That...![How MPAs can help mitigate impacts of climate change via coastal blue carbon, “fish carbon”, and more](https://octogroup.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/mpa-news.png)
UK intends to designate large no-take MPA around part of Ascension Island; UK’s Pitcairn Islands MPA on track for 2016 designation
The UK Government has announced its intent to designate a large no-take MPA around part of Ascension Island, a remote and lightly populated UK territory in the mid-Atlantic Ocean, just south of the Equator. Although formal declaration of the MPA’s boundaries may...![How MPAs can help mitigate impacts of climate change via coastal blue carbon, “fish carbon”, and more](https://octogroup.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/mpa-news.png)
South Africa’s oldest MPA may be reopened to fishing
South Africa's oldest MPA is in limbo now as it awaits a government decision on whether to reopen it to fishing, as requested by local anglers.
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