by John Davis | Mar 15, 2000
Amid the growing recognition of marine protected areas as a useful resource management tool, two things stand out to enable MPAs to achieve their resource management goals. Effective institutions and processes must exist to plan and support the MPAs, and qualified...
by John Davis | Feb 15, 2000
In the last issue of MPA News (December/January), we initiated a discussion on the topic of MPA nomenclature. We reprinted the IUCN’s and national definitions for “marine protected area”, and provided a list of terms that had previously appeared in...
by John Davis | Feb 15, 2000
An advisory council to the Australian state of Victoria has released a draft recommendation that the state create a system of “highly protected” marine areas (i.e., no-take reserves) to protect fish breeding areas and other key habitats. The draft...
by John Davis | Feb 15, 2000
The government of the Bahamas has announced a plan to create five no-take reserves in its waters this year — the first step in a process that could eventually close 20% of the country’s marine environment to fishing, according to scientists and NGOs in...
by John Davis | Dec 15, 1999
What’s in a name? Perhaps more than you bargained for, if you’re in the field of MPAs. With practitioners seeming each month to cook up new terms for particular types of marine protected areas, staying up-to-date on the ever-expanding MPA dictionary has...
