MPA News Archives

January - March 2021 (22:4)

Why we should be optimistic about the future of MPA finance: Interview with Amílcar Guzmán Valladares and Viviana Luján Gallegos of Wolfs Company

Promoting a portfolio of regional MPA projects to potential donors and investors

Steering the behavior of MPA users: Why a diversity of approaches is the key to MPA governance

How the post-COVID world will be different for MPAs (and how practitioners can plan ahead for the next disruption)

Science Corner: Learning networks - Partially protected marine areas - MPAs that move over time - MPAs and heat waves

Notes & News: 83 nations commit to 30x30 - Blue Action Fund call for proposals - Tripling an MPA's size - Mediterranean MPAs and fishing - Bottom trawling and UK MPAs - Finance guide - Around the web - MPA News vault

November - December 2020 (22:3)

Letter from the Editor: Building a new 'normal' for MPAs after COVID-19

"Life after the pandemic will not be the same as before": How the revenue-savvy Brijuni National Park has navigated COVID-19 and is planning for the future

Charting a new course for MPA finance: Practitioners explore new concepts like public-private partnerships, the use of financial technology, and more

Resources on MPAs and COVID-19: Biodiversity conservation during COVID - Impacts on the marine environment and economy - Grants

New dates: IMPAC5 to be held in June 2022 in Vancouver, Canada

Science Corner: MPAs and fish catch - Dynamic MPAs - Network performance indicators - Cumulative impacts and conservation planning - Residual MPAs

Notes & News: More 30x30 commitments - Tristan da Cunha - EU MPAs - Seabirds and COVID - Debris cleanup - Reef restoration - Poaching - Blue Parks - Around the web - MPA News vault

September - October 2020 (22:2)

Selling carbon credits to fund MPAs, Part 2: Could MPAs sell credits based on their fish stocks?

Letter to the Editor: Underpricing of blue carbon on the voluntary market

More resources on MPAs and COVID-19: COVID and SDGs - Impacts on sites - Grants

Perspective | Important Marine Mammal Areas come of age: Identified sites are now leading to real protections

Notes & News: 10% coverage target - Russia - Belize - Scotland - Cote D'Ivoire - Galapagos - New coral reef fund - Around the web - From the MPA News vault

July - August 2020 (22:1)

Funding MPAs by selling blue carbon credits: Practitioners from the first projects describe their experience so far

Perspective | The Phoenix Islands Protected Area: The Greatest Ocean Conservation Story Ever Told

Perspective | The North Sea Stakeholders Agreement: Participative policy development in the Netherlands

Notes & News: 30x30 target - Cook Islands - $16M vessel forfeited for poaching - Baffin Island - New alga smothers reefs - 16th century wreck in MPA - MPA News vault

June 2020 (21:2)

Part 2 of our continuing coverage of MPAs, COVID-19, and the financial crisis

"Donors have started to shift funding to address other urgent and essential needs": An interview with Markus Knigge of Blue Action Fund

"We need to be talking about innovation": Insights from the World Economic Forum panel on MPAs and COVID-19

More resources on MPAs and COVID-19: Guidance and grants

Perspective | What protecting the ocean can teach us about police brutality

Perspective | Safeguarding MPAs amid the Mediterranean’s growing Blue Economy: Recommendations from the PHAROS4MPAs project

Notes & News: 30x30 target - EU - UK - MPA Agency Partnership - US - Trump - India - Azores - Comic-style guide to MPAs - Stony coral disease - Around the web - From the MPA News vault

May 2020 (21:1)

MPAs, COVID-19, and the coming financial crisis: What impacts are practitioners already seeing, and how are they responding?

More resources on MPAs and COVID-19

MPA Science Corner: Gaps in protection - Southern Ocean MPAs - Invasion risk to MPAs - Marine predators - Mediterranean MPAs - Protecting a resilient reef - Priority ABNJ areas - Impact of a small no-take zone - Climate adaptation and MPAs

Notes & News: Niue - Seychelles - Great Barrier Reef - Mediterranean - High seas MPAs - The Skimmer - MPA readings - 2019 highlights - From the MPA News vault

February 2019 (20:6)

The big question for the MPA field: How effective are our MPAs? An interview with Jean-Luc Solandt

Letter to the editor: IUCN consensus needlessly ignores cultural MPAs

Perspective: Analyzing susceptibility of coastal MPAs to catastrophic land-based events

Perspective: Thirty more marine mammal habitats awarded status as Important Marine Mammal Areas

MPA Science Corner: Network of no-take reserves - Drones for conservation - Coral Triangle conservation atlas - Designing MPA networks with multiple objectives - Converting an ad hoc MPA system to a real network

Notes & News: Chile - Enforcement vessel threatened - Global Ocean Refuges - MPAs and human health - Ecosystem approach - MPA readings - Top MPA News articles of 2018

January 2019 special article

Impacts of the US government shutdown on federal MPAs: Some of the world’s largest MPAs had just one person working at them this past month

December 2018 - January 2019 (20:5)

Sharpening our focus on MPAs for 2020 and beyond: The emerging consensus on what is and is not an MPA, and the key types of MPAs

New online system is available to collect MPA user fees safely and easily; developed by former Bonaire National Marine Park manager

Perspective: Local communities and tourism operators partner to establish Fiji’s largest Marine Conservation Park

Perspective: California’s new law cracks down on commercial-scale poaching in MPAs

Perspective: Building environmental change into spatial closures to reduce sea turtle bycatch

MPA Science Corner: Knowledge transfer among managers - Spatial management of seabirds - Partially protected areas - Mesophotic coral reefs

MPA Training in a Nutshell: On the importance of reflecting on achievements great and small

Notes & News: Blue Charter - Argentina - Green List - Co-management agreement - IMMAs - SE Asia - European MPAs - MPA benefits - MPA Federal Advisory Committee - Tourism - Coral restoration - Paywalled papers - MPA readings - MPA News vault

November 2018 (20:4)

Planning MPAs in an era of warming oceans: How practitioners are preparing for future ecosystem shifts

MPA Training in a Nutshell: On the MPA Rapid Vulnerability Assessment Tool

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