MPAs and marine litter: Snapshots of how sites are addressing the problem worldwide
The Skimmer: A brief primer on marine litter and ocean plastics
Perspective | The MPAs of Central America (second of three articles): Challenges faced, including the emergence of well-financed criminal groups
From the editor: Why MPA News said large MPAs were a necessity to meet Aichi Target 11
MPA Training in a Nutshell: On building MPA social networks
MPA Science Corner: Impact of human activity on coral reef MPAs - Questioning large open-ocean MPAs - Questioning calculations of global MPA coverage
Notes & News: Volcano - Malta - Chile - UK - New Zealand - Great Barrier Reef - WCC - Stamp contest winners - MPA News vault
The Big Picture: The continuing debate over the value of large vs. small MPAs, and what it means for the field
Perspective | The Commonwealth Blue Charter: From zero to fifty-three in less than a year
Perspective | The MPAs of Central America: An introductory view of their successes, lessons learned, and ongoing challenges (first of three articles)
MPA Science Corner: MPA trade-offs - Addressing criticisms of large-scale MPAs - Curbing threats
Notes & News: Global warming and MPAs - Thailand - Innovative financing - Sport and biodiversity - Business and biodiversity - Caribbean MPAs - Ocean Awards - MPA News vault
Double issue!
Challenges, successes, and lessons from building effective MPA manager networks: Part II - The regional networks
Perspective: Key lessons learned on public participation from the process to rezone the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park
Seychelles, Brazil, and Chile announce significant new MPA designations
Australian government moves to reopen large areas of national marine park system to fishing
Blue Solution: Applying studies of larval connectivity to support MPA planning and governance
MPA Science Corner: Beneficial fish traits in MPAs - Representation and connectivity - Studying very large MPAs
Notes & News: IMPAC5 - Public-private partnership - South Georgia and South Sandwich - MPA survey - Successful co-management - Coast Guard magazine - MPA film - Postage stamp contest for Chagos - IMMAs - MPA News vault
MPA News' partner newsletter MEAM has ocean management news you don't get anywhere else
"As an MPA manager, it’s nice to know I’m not alone out there": Challenges, successes, and lessons from building effective MPA management networks (Part I - The global networks)
What impacts could Trump's proposed offshore drilling plan have on MPAs and other current closures in US waters? Here's a primer
New draft document consolidates IUCN's several existing standards for designing and managing effective MPAs
Blue Solution | MPAs as part of the solution toward a resilient eco-city
MPA Science Corner: Hydroacoustics as a cost-effective tool - Marine reserve effectiveness - Evaluating MPA networks
Notes & News: Canada - Azerbaijan - High seas treaty - Coral Reef Conservation Fund - GLORES - Breaking down the marine science paywall - MPA News vault
Say hello to OCTO!
If MPAs had a legal right to be managed well, would that end the problem of paper parks? This campaign suggests it would
Mexico creates North America's largest fully protected MPA
"These were the barriers I kept coming up against": How an ecologist-turned-manager documented the scientific obstacles to MPA management, and his advice to improve the situation
How to find free science articles for your MPA
MPA Science Corner: Lessons from GBR rezoning - Overlaps in protected area designations - Perceptions of ecosystem services
What do you wish you knew when you got started in MPAs?: Arthur Tuda
Blue Solution: A science-based management model to protect isolated and vulnerable subantarctic ecosystems
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
What do you know now that you wish you knew when you got started in MPAs? Insights from practitioners
Perspective: In building your MPA career, go outside your comfort zone and take calculated risks
Proposal for East Antarctic system of MPAs falls short again of international consensus
Blue Solution | Kawawana indigenous community conserved area in Senegal: Good life recovered through conservation
MPA Science Corner: North Atlantic MPAs - Fish movement and MPAs - Large MPAs - Papahānaumokuākea
Notes & News: 'Most Beautiful Office' contest - Trivia winners - Ocean plastics - World Heritage sites - Coral mortality - Bleaching-resistant corals - Seafloor visualization tool - EU overseas MPAs - MPA News vault
Global targets call for effective MPAs. But how do we best achieve effectiveness? Practitioners respond
Highlights from the Fourth International Marine Protected Areas Congress
Putting the 'P' in MPA: Update on the future of IUU fisheries enforcement, and how MPAs can now get involved
Notes & news: Social sciences - Trump - Canada - Papahanaumokuakea - Mediterranean - Climate change impacts - MPA network coherence - World Parks Congress - International Year of the Reef - MPA News vault
Editorial: Sticks, carrots, and the future of MPAs (and the future of MPA News, too)
UN Ocean Conference results in several MPA-related commitments by governments, organizations
Perspective: Amid uncertainty over UK MPAs’ future, reasons for optimism emerge
Financing spotlight: Blue Abadi, a $38-million trust fund to support MPAs in the Bird’s Head region of Indonesia
