MPA Science Corner: Lessons from GBR rezoning – Overlaps in protected area designations – Perceptions of ecosystem services

Blue Solution: A science-based management model to protect isolated and vulnerable subantarctic ecosystems

The subantarctic ecosystems of the French Southern Lands (Terres australes françaises, or TAF) consist of several small island groups and their surrounding waters in the southern Indian Ocean. None are permanently inhabited by humans. The ecosystems are relatively unique by virtue of their location and isolation, and are viewed as particularly vulnerable to pressures, from fishing to climate change. Nonetheless, the remoteness has historically made researching, surveilling, and supplying the areas a challenge, leaving data gaps.

MPA Science Corner: Lessons from GBR rezoning – Overlaps in protected area designations – Perceptions of ecosystem services

Notes & News: ‘Most Beautiful Office’ contest – Clarification – Arctic fishing ban – Ross Sea – Great Barrier Reef – Trump – Genetics – MPA success stories – MPA funding – Mediterranean – MPAs and sustainable development – Russian MPA – MPA News vault

Contest: “Most Beautiful Office” MPA News’ “Most Beautiful Office” contest continues! Some MPA managers, planners, and conservationists work in relatively plain office buildings – but others work in beachfront villas, or on-the-water ranger stations, or in an actual...