More resources on MPAs and COVID-19
by John Davis | May 7, 2020
Journal article
- Impacts of the coronavirus pandemic on biodiversity conservation – click here
MPA cases
- How researchers are studying the 0.4-km2 Hanauma Bay Nature Preserve in Hawai`i, where daily visitation has dropped from 3000 people a day to zero – click here
- How the pandemic has led to an increase in zoning offenses in the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park – click here
- How the collapse in cruise ship business has upended the budget for Glacier Bay National Park in the US – click here
- How one MPA, Chumbe Island Coral Park in Zanzibar, has set up a crowdfunding campaign to help support it through this time – click here
Essays
- The business case for conservation in the time of COVID-19, by Nirmal Jivan Shah of Nature Seychelles – click here
- How COVID-19 underscores the urgency of holistic community-based approaches to conservation, by Alasdair Harris of Blue Ventures – click here
- A vision for the Mediterranean that could arise from the COVID-19 pandemic, by Giuseppe di Carlo of the WWF Mediterranean Marine Initiative – click here
Collections of resources
- Three guides from the Mulago Foundation, which is producing great material on how institutions can survive the pandemic:
- What institutions need to do to survive the COVID-19 pandemic and financial crisis (a webinar) – click here for the recording
- Lessons on crisis management from those who have been there before, available in English, Spanish, French, and Portuguese – click here (the raw unabridged version is here)
- A “quick and dirty” guide to COVID-19 planning for non-profits – click here
- COVID-19 materials gathered by Blue Ventures, including posters, reports, websites, and more – click here
COVID-19 and fishing
- The Skimmer’s synopsis of how COVID-19 is affecting fisheries and aquaculture – click here
- Insights on the impacts of COVID-19 on Mexican fisheries, gathered from fishers by COBI – click here (in Spanish, click here)
- Insights on the impacts of COVID-19 on Mediterranean fisheries, gathered from fishers by the WWF Mediterranean Marine Initiative – click here