by John Davis | May 15, 2006
Over the past two decades, much of the effort among proponents of marine protected areas has focused on securing designation of new sites. Thousands of MPAs now exist worldwide, with more to come as nations work to establish representative MPA networks. While some of...
by John Davis | May 15, 2006
Editor’s note: Sue Wells, a private consultant to the UNEP World Conservation Monitoring Centre, coordinated the theme on “Ensuring Effective Management” at the First International Marine Protected Areas Congress (IMPAC1) in October 2005 in Geelong,...
by John Davis | May 15, 2006
By Sue Wells and Nancy Dahl-Tacconi Many methods are being developed and tested for evaluating MPA management effectiveness. This is good: different situations and needs of MPAs require different methods of evaluation. Bear in mind that the various methods are not...
by John Davis | May 15, 2006
Marc Hockings is vice-chair of the IUCN World Commission on Protected Areas (WCPA), responsible for WCPA’s program of Science, Knowledge and Management, which includes work on management effectiveness. He co-authored the IUCN report Evaluating Effectiveness: A...
by John Davis | May 15, 2006
Australian government releases final plan for MPA network in SE Australia The Australian government has released its final plan for a representative MPA network in Southeast Australia, to cover 226,000 km2 of commonwealth waters in 13 new marine protected areas. The...
