World Heritage developments at WPC
UNESCO’s World Heritage Marine Programme was busy at the World Parks Congress: The Programme released a new four-minute film, narrated by supermodel and UN Goodwill Ambassador for the Environment Gisele Bündchen, profiling conservation achievements at three WH...
Notes & news: CCAMLR – High seas bottom fisheries – Optimal MPA enforcement – Cultural MPAs – Shipwreck MPA – Spillover study – Marine managed areas
Again, CCAMLR fails to find consensus on proposals for large MPAs in Antarctic At its annual meeting in October 2014, the Commission on the Conservation of Antarctic Marine Living Resources (CCAMLR) failed for the fourth meeting in a row to reach consensus on...
Perspective: Ocean tipping points and the language of change
By Carrie Kappel and Benjamin Halpern
Tipping points occur when small shifts in human pressures or environmental conditions bring about large, sometimes abrupt changes in a system – whether in a human society, a physical system, an ecosystem or our planet's climate.