by John Davis | Jul 15, 2006
US President George W. Bush has designated a giant marine protected area around the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands (NWHI), a long stretch of coral islands, seamounts, banks, and shoals that extend westward from the main Hawaiian Islands. With an area of 139,793 square...
by John Davis | Jul 15, 2006
Editor’s note: Lida Pet-Soede is director of the marine and turtle program for WWF-Indonesia. By Lida Pet-Soede In 1984, a detailed plan for development of an Indonesian system of MPAs was produced for the nation’s Directorate General of Forest Protection...
by John Davis | Jul 15, 2006
An international project is underway to find scientific answers to some of the biggest questions in the MPA field. Operated by Conservation International (a US-based NGO) at its Center for Applied Biodiversity Science, the project seeks to distill the ecological and...
by John Davis | Jul 15, 2006
As recent as 2000, there was little discussion within international government on the concept of protecting high-seas ecosystems with MPAs. Despite concern that deep-sea habitats outside national jurisdictions were threatened by largely unregulated human activities,...
by John Davis | Jul 15, 2006
Four companies to halt high-seas fishing in southern Indian Ocean Four major fishing companies have announced a voluntary halt to trawling in 11 deep-sea areas of the southern Indian Ocean. The companies – Austral Fisheries Pty Ltd (Australia), Bel Ocean II Ltd...
