by John Davis | Mar 15, 2008
The Pacific island nation of Kiribati has more than doubled the size of its Phoenix Islands Protected Area (PIPA), creating what is being called the world’s largest marine protected area. The expanded MPA, announced by the Government of Kiribati in late January...
by John Davis | Mar 15, 2008
A project to create a global database on marine protected areas has released new figures on the state of the MPA field. Representing the most authoritative figures to date, the findings show the small total area covered by MPAs worldwide – less than 1%. The...
by John Davis | Mar 15, 2008
Editor’s note: The authors of the following essay are faculty members of the Department of Ecology and Hydrology at the University of Murcia, Spain. They serve as coordinators of EMPAFISH (www.um.es/empafish), a project funded by the European Commission to study...
by John Davis | Mar 15, 2008
Editor’s note: Joseph Uravitch is director of the U.S. National Marine Protected Areas Center. The MPA Center is a division of the Office of Ocean and Coastal Resource Management within the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s (NOAA) National...
by John Davis | Mar 15, 2008
New manual available on Marxan A new user’s manual is available for Marxan, a software program that provides support for decision-making on MPA design. The manual provides readers with the basic knowledge needed to use the software, including the questions it...
