Notes & News

Notes & News

UK recalculates Chagos MPA size; finds it is 100,000 km2 larger than announced You know your MPA is big when the officially announced size is off by 100,000 km2 and no one catches the mistake for two years. The Chagos Marine Protected Area has been widely reported...
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From the Database: Five median-sized MPAs

The global median size for marine protected areas is 1.6 km2.* In other words, half of MPAs worldwide are larger than that, and half are smaller. The following list, drawn from the World Database on Protected Areas (WDPA), features marine protected areas that are...
Managing Trade-offs: Viewpoints from the Negotiation Table

Perspective: 13 Myths of Marine Spatial Planning

[Editor's note: Charles Ehler is president of Ocean Visions Consulting and a senior consultant on marine spatial planning to UNESCO's Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC) in Paris, France. The Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation has supported his...