The $400-Billion Potential for Private Investment in Conservation: With Investors Looking for Projects, What Can MPAs Do to Access the Funds?
In early 2016, a report by firms in the global financial sector estimated that conservation funding worldwide could be grown from its current level of US $52 billion to as much as $400 billion per year. How? Through private investment. If conservation projects could...
Could U.S. Whistleblower Laws Open a New Financing Stream for MPAs Worldwide?
Stephen M. Kohn is Executive Director of the National Whistleblower Center (NWC), a legal advocacy organization. The NWC has spent 30 years supporting whistleblowers, mostly in the banking and securities sector where awareness of the reward system is relatively high. When Kohn realized in 2015 that the whistleblower reward system also existed throughout US environmental law, he decided that a tool that worked successfully in fighting financial crime should be applied just as energetically to fighting wildlife crime.
Blue Solution: Coral Reef Valuation for MPA Implementation and Management in St. Maarten
By Tadzio Bervoets, Nature Foundation St. Maarten (adapted by MPA News)
For a long time there was little government management of the marine environment in the Caribbean island nation of St. Maarten. In 1997, the Nature Foundation St. Maarten was established in order to set up and manage a marine park, under contract from the St. Maarten government. But the proposed park failed to gain political support: the way it was designed, the park would have had significant impacts on the country’s cruise ship industry, dive shop operators, and fishers.