by John Davis | Jan 18, 2013
Belize designates multi-use MPA for Turneffe Atoll; Bertarelli Foundation again involved In November 2012, the Belizean government designated the 1316-km2 Turneffe Atoll Marine Reserve, a multi-use MPA that covers the largest previously unprotected section of...
by John Davis | Jan 18, 2013
[Editor’s note: The LMMA Network supports learning, advocacy, partnership, and institutional development for community-driven marine resource management and conservation, including through the use of locally-managed marine areas or LMMAs (www.lmmanetwork.org)....
by John Davis | Jan 17, 2013
In 2006, four experimental lobster reserves (each 0.5-1 km2 in area) were implemented along the Norwegian Skagerrak coast offering complete protection to shellfish and partial protection to fish — only hook-and-line fishing was allowed (MPA News 8:5). Results from a...
by Sarah Carr, Ph.D. | Dec 19, 2012
For the first time in human history, more than half of the world's population now lives in cities, and each year tens of millions more people become city dwellers through births and migration. We have become an urban species. What does this have to do with marine...
by Sarah Carr, Ph.D. | Dec 19, 2012
By Tundi Agardy, MEAM Contributing Editor, tundiagardy@earthlink.net The gray, concretized urban landscape couldn't be farther from protection of nature and oceans in most people's minds. Yet coastal cities may hold the key to a sustainable future, and will be...