IUCN Offers Financing Guidebook for Managers
The World Conservation Union (IUCN) has published a guidebook to assist protected area managers in identifying and securing appropriate and sustainable finance. Financing Protected Areas: Guidelines for Protected Area Managers provides a step-by-step process for...
Citing Benefits of No-Take Areas, Scientists Call for New Networks of Marine Reserves
There is now compelling scientific evidence that no-take areas — or marine reserves — conserve both biodiversity and fisheries, and could help replenish depleted fish stocks, according to a consensus statement signed by 160 marine-science academics from...
MPA Perspective: Genetics, Marine Dispersal Distances, and the Design of Marine Reserve Networks
By Stephen Palumbi, Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, Harvard University
The seas are increasingly in serious trouble. Coral bleaching, blankets of hypoxic or anoxic water, radical changes in species composition, toxic algal blooms, marine epidemic diseases, mass mortalities, and fisheries collapses are all symptoms of complex but fundamental alterations in the health of marine ecosystems. As both the value and vulnerability of marine ecosystems become broadly recognized, there is an increasing search for effective mechanisms to prevent or reverse widespread declines, and to sustain or restore ocean ecosystems.