by John Davis | Jan 15, 2012
In late November, the Australian Government released a draft plan to designate what could be the world’s largest marine protected area. Covering 989,842 km2, the proposed Coral Sea Commonwealth Marine Reserve would be located in Australian waters of the Coral...
by John Davis | Jan 15, 2012
MPA enforcement conference delayed to November 2012 The Global MPA Enforcement Conference, sponsored by WildAid and originally scheduled for February 2012, has been postponed to 25-29 November 2012. It will still be held in San Francisco, California, US. The website...
by John Davis | Jan 15, 2012
The following sites are drawn from the World Database on Protected Areas (WDPA), compiled by the UNEP World Conservation Monitoring Centre. For reference, the North Pole is 90° N, the Equator is 0°, and each full degree of latitude equals 111 km. The longitudinal...
by Sarah Carr, Ph.D. | Dec 20, 2011
A habitat map, in its most basic sense, shows where particular plants and animals are likely to live. A map that shows the location of coral reefs, for example, suggests where there will be reef-associated species. Likewise for other seafloor habitats – sandy...
by Sarah Carr, Ph.D. | Dec 20, 2011
By Paul Macnab, Manager, The Gully Marine Protected Area, Canada Until 1997, hydrographic coverage of The Gully, the largest submarine canyon in eastern North America, was minimal, with only 1% surveyed using single beam methods and widely-spaced vessel transects....