…environment and the problems facing it. The campaign website is www.yourseasyourvoice.com. Visitors are invited to tell the website about an…
Bringing MPAs Online: The Use of Webcams for Education, Monitoring, and Other Purposes
…Rocks website, http://www.racerocks.com (where webcam videos can be viewed), notifying officials about illegal activity observed around the islands. Fishing in…
Mooring Buoys as a Management Tool for Controlling Visitor Impacts: An Introduction
…Association. It can be downloaded at http://www.projectaware.org/americas/english/pdfs/moorbuoy.pdf. In addition, a case study on installation of mooring buoys at Komodo National…
Developing a National System of MPAs: US Working To Promote Coordination of Existing and Future Sites
…Environment, is available online in PDF format at http://www.mpa.gov/fac/pdf/mpafac_report_06_05.pdf. BOX: Tightening the definition of “MPA” Deciding what is, or is…
Mismatches between the scale of ecosystems and the scale of management: How practitioners are addressing this challenge
…jurisdictions larger? In many regions where coastal communities are highly dependent upon marine resources, ‘top-down’ management strategies implemented by higher-level…
How genetics can improve marine conservation and management: What practitioners should know (and do)
…latest technological developments is not always necessary for management and may even be counterproductive by preventing standardization and data comparison…
Women and MPAs: How Gender Affects Roles in Planning and Management
…coastal planners incorporate gender-equity concerns in their work. (It is downloadable for free in PDF format at http://www.poam.org/articulos-estudios/genero/marine.shtml.) She is…
Tiny but mighty: Ocean health depends on bacteria and viruses, so what should managers know about them?
…reason for this is that marine microbes are notoriously difficult to culture… They depend on complex, highly interactive communities that…
Selling carbon credits to fund MPAs, Part 2: Could MPAs sell credits based on their fish stocks?
…Whale Sanctuary, and a resolution was passed by 36 countries asking the IWC’s Scientific Committee to advance the understanding of how whale…
Notes & News
…online at http://www.wbgu.de/wbgu_sn2006_en.pdf. US releases draft framework for national MPA system; federal MPA advisory committee seeks applicants In the US,…