by John Davis | Mar 15, 2012
Global targets for the percentage of oceans to be protected serve two general purposes: as a goal for MPA efforts to pursue, and as a measure of those efforts’ progress. Unfortunately, over the past decade, some of the high-profile targets for MPAs have proven...
by John Davis | Mar 15, 2012
Editor’s note: Graeme Kelleher AO is former chairman of the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority and serves as senior advisor to the IUCN World Commission on Protected Areas. The lessons here, some of which have appeared previously in MPA News, are drawn...
by John Davis | Mar 15, 2012
International summit of MPA agencies held in February In February 2012, senior officials from MPA agencies of 16 nations gathered in San Francisco, California (US), to discuss how to use their combined influence and efforts to increase the value and success of MPAs...
by John Davis | Mar 15, 2012
The protectedplanet.net website serves as a searchable interface for the World Database on Protected Areas (WDPA), compiled by the UNEP World Conservation Monitoring Centre. Each protected area in the database has its own page on protectedplanet.net with details such...
