Australian Government Releases Proposal for Large Coral Sea MPA; Stakeholders Respond

Notes & News

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...
Australian Government Releases Proposal for Large Coral Sea MPA; Stakeholders Respond

From the Database: The Northernmost MPAs

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...
How Detailed Mapping of the Sea Floor Is Informing Ecosystem-Based Management

Improved Seafloor Maps and The Gully

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....