by John Davis | Jan 15, 2012
In the field of marine protected areas, an unfortunate reality is that many sites are “paper parks”. Existing on paper – in laws and on maps – but failing to provide effective management and enforcement, these sites offer the promise of robust...
by John Davis | Jan 15, 2012
In recent years, ecologist Joachim Claudet has been at the forefront of MPA science. His studies of European marine reserves – which found that the older and larger a marine reserve is, the greater the density of large fish inside it is – have held...
by John Davis | Jan 15, 2012
In late November, the Australian Government released a draft plan to designate what could be the world’s largest marine protected area. Covering 989,842 km2, the proposed Coral Sea Commonwealth Marine Reserve would be located in Australian waters of the Coral...
by John Davis | Jan 15, 2012
MPA enforcement conference delayed to November 2012 The Global MPA Enforcement Conference, sponsored by WildAid and originally scheduled for February 2012, has been postponed to 25-29 November 2012. It will still be held in San Francisco, California, US. The website...
by John Davis | Jan 15, 2012
The following sites are drawn from the World Database on Protected Areas (WDPA), compiled by the UNEP World Conservation Monitoring Centre. For reference, the North Pole is 90° N, the Equator is 0°, and each full degree of latitude equals 111 km. The longitudinal...