by John Davis | Feb 15, 2006
Editor’s note: Bill Ballantine is a marine biologist at the Leigh Marine Laboratory, University of Auckland, New Zealand. He has advocated the concept of no-take marine reserves since the 1960s and helped promote many of the existing reserves in New Zealand...
by John Davis | Feb 15, 2006
Correction Due to an editorial error, the lead article of the December 2005/January 2006 edition of MPA News (“Sacred MPAs: Where Protected Areas Hold Spiritual Value for Stakeholders, and How This Affects Management”) contained inaccuracies about the...
by John Davis | Dec 15, 2005
Most of the discussion on marine protected areas focuses on their biological and material worth: how MPAs can be used to restore habitats and maintain biodiversity, make fisheries more sustainable, attract tourism, and so forth. For many people worldwide, however,...
by John Davis | Dec 15, 2005
Allen Putney has more than three decades of international experience in the planning, management, and financing of protected areas. He leads the Task Force on Cultural and Spiritual Values for the World Commission on Protected Areas (WCPA). He also co-edited, with...
by John Davis | Dec 15, 2005
Editor’s note: Alan White is president of Coastal Conservation and Education Foundation, a Philippine NGO, and Anna Meneses is coordinator of the organization’s Marine Protected Area Project, described in the following essay. The project is supported by...
