by John Davis | Dec 15, 2006
Editor’s note: Rebecca Koss, with The People and Parks Foundation, is project officer for Sea Search, the program described in the following essay. Anthony Boxshall is manager of marine national parks research for Parks Victoria. Peter R. Brown is chief...
by John Davis | Dec 15, 2006
The October 2006 edition of MPA News featured an article on the role of MPAs in ecosystem-based management (EBM), and vice versa. We invited readers to participate in a short online poll on the subject, with the goal of measuring baseline attitudes on the relationship...
by John Davis | Dec 15, 2006
World Bank releases report on scaling up MPAs The World Bank has released a report that assesses factors likely to determine MPA success and identifies opportunities for the Bank and its partners to scale up MPA implementation to meet global conservation targets, such...
by John Davis | Nov 15, 2006
A fundamental challenge in MPA management is that the resources being protected are often remote – located underwater, out of human eyesight, sometimes kilometers from shore. This can make monitoring, education, and other management activities relatively...
by John Davis | Nov 15, 2006
If you conduct a Google search for “underwater webcam”, one of the first sites you encounter is for Bonaire WebCams, a series of cameras that transmit video from various locations on the Caribbean island of Bonaire. One of these cameras is the so-called...
