Posts by Hannah Hindley
A Blue Park Becomes the Largest Fully Protected Marine Reserve in the North Atlantic
Featured Image: Giant anemone (Telmatactis cricoides) with white-striped cleaner shrimp (Lysmata grabhami). Photograph by Andy Mann, National Geographic Pristine Seas Off the northwestern shores of Africa, Madeira’s Ilhas Selvagens—the Savage Islands—are rugged and remote, inhabited only by park rangers, nesting seabirds, and endemic geckos. Enormous ocean swells sweep past the skeletons of old shipwrecks, churning…
Read MoreMapping ocean protection, part 3
This is part of an ongoing series of video tutorials exploring the Marine Protection Atlas. Check out the first one here, and the second one here. What if you could choose a travel destination based not just on how beautiful is, but also on how well-protected it is? What if you had the tools to understand how…
Read MoreMapping ocean protection, part 2
This is part of an ongoing series of video tutorials exploring the Marine Protection Atlas. Check out the first one here. What if you could choose a travel destination based not just on how beautiful is, but also on how well-protected it is? What if you had the tools to understand how your local bay or favorite surf…
Read MoreA map can reveal the real-time status of ocean protection around the world. How does it work?
What if you could choose a travel destination based not just on how beautiful is, but also on how well-protected it is? What if you had the tools to understand how your local bay or favorite surf break is managed—tools that could help you advocate to improve those protections and save the wild ocean places…
Read MoreBlue Sparks Light up the Eastern Tropical Pacific at COP26
Featured Image: Parque Nacional Isla del Coco. Photo credit: Avi Klapfer This week and next week, the 26th Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (“COP26”) brings negotiators from nearly every nation together in Glasgow, Scotland, to discuss the future of climate change. Tensions are high— hundreds of climate…
Read MoreA hundred nations just signed a landmark biodiversity declaration—what does that mean for the climate?
The world has been holding its breath for some time, waiting for the UN Convention on Biological Diversity—postponed for over a year due to the global pandemic—to resume. Just this week, part one of the 15th Conference of Parties to the 1992 UN Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD COP15), was held in Kunming, China. The…
Read MoreCarving for conservation: these are the world’s best-protected surf breaks
Did you know? From rugged backcountry surfing to the legendary Ghost Wave, some of the world’s most alluring surf breaks are part of Blue Parks—a growing network of the best-protected marine reserves on the planet. Check them out below! Not sure how well-protected your favorite surf break is? Find it on the Marine Protection Atlas…
Read MoreProtecting what you love: 6 virtual ways to explore the Ocean
“People protect what they love.” – Jacques Yves Cousteau World Ocean Day is coming up — a day when people around our blue planet celebrate and honor our one shared ocean, that connects us all. World Ocean Day is certainly a day for engagement, and we invite you to honor the ocean with your own…
Read MoreHow filmmaking could help save the ocean
https://marine-conservation.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/Whiskey-Sky-blog.mp3 Meet Chris Chen and Maria Bernal-Silva, the creative forces behind Marine Conservation Institute’s new organizational video Earlier this year, Emmy-nominated video editor Chris Chen of Whiskey Sky Media listened in on a conversation that would lead to an extraordinary project. In his San Diego home, Chris leaned in and dialed up the volume on…
Read MoreBridging Blue Parks
A new vision for multinational marine reserves could change the face of ocean protection forever In the Eastern Tropical Pacific’s swirling currents, endangered leatherback turtles cruise along undersea ridges and muscular hammerhead sharks travel between islands the way that traffic moves between cities. For 23 million years, seafloor spreading has given birth to complex underwater…
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