On the TideOn the TideArticles and News from Marine Conservation Institute The Perspective – Ocean Takeaways from COP27 January 25, 2023 A half-hearted win for Indigenous rights at Convention for Biological Diversity – COP15 January 5, 2023 World Resoundingly Agrees to Protect 30% of the Planet By 2030, Now Comes the Hard Part: Building a Vast, Highly Protected Network of Effectively Managed MPAs By the End of This Decade December 21, 2022 Tales from Tewa Tewa: How Sea Women of Melanesia is empowering women, sustainable local communities and marine conservation November 15, 2022 Meet the 2023 Blue Park Award nominees, and help us evaluate them! November 3, 2022 Biggest Climate Bill Ever Signed into Law; It’s a Game Changer With some Compromises Wrapped Inside the Inflation Reduction Act August 30, 2022 National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration Rejects Proposal to Expand Area for Rock Shrimp Bottom Trawl Fishery off Florida Coast July 29, 2022 UPDATE: Florida Keys and Oculina Coral Reefs July 22, 2022 The 2022 Blue Park Awards at the UN Ocean Conference July 15, 2022 Three Blue Park Award Winners Announced at UN Ocean Conference July 1, 2022 A Visit to French Polynesia for the Blue Climate Summit June 17, 2022 Scientists’ Warning of an Imperiled Ocean; 125 Scientists (and counting) Join Call to Action to Conserve and Restore Global Oceans June 6, 2022 Fight to save rare Oculina coral reefs off Florida continues; Round 3 of the battle is on! May 31, 2022 First Time That 50 Largest US Marine Protected Areas Assessed for Effectiveness Using Rigorous Scientific Criteria; Almost 100% of US MPA ‘Eggs’ Are in One Basket in the Central Pacific May 18, 2022 The Blue Climate Summit Names Marine Conservation Institute’s MPAtlas as Critical to Accelerating Solutions to Ocean and Climate Issues May 15, 2022 1 2 3 … 77 Next »