Posts Tagged ‘30X30’
Tubbataha Reefs Natural Park Ranger Team Earns International Ranger Award
To truly safeguard marine life and restore our ocean, Biden’s proposed sanctuary around the entirety of the Pacific Remote Islands must provide a high level of protection and eliminate commercial fishing in line with the existing marine national monument.
Read MoreMarine Conservation Institute Applauds Biden-Harris Administration Proposed Expansion of Marine Sanctuary Around Pacific Remote Islands Marine National Monument
To truly safeguard marine life and restore our ocean, Biden’s proposed sanctuary around the entirety of the Pacific Remote Islands must provide a high level of protection and eliminate commercial fishing in line with the existing marine national monument.
Read MoreWorld 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
© Picture Tobias Zimmer With contributions from Menelas Kosadinos, Beth Pike, Lance Morgan, Russell Moffitt & Jessica MacCarthy Across the globe, governments, NGOs, scientists, conservationists and many others are hailing the conclusion of the Conference of Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD COP15) where countries successfully adopted the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework late…
Read MoreFirst 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
Effective Marine Conservation in US Is Not Representative; Most Regions Have Close to Zero Area Effectively Protected [Seattle, Washington, USA, May 18, 2022] One way humanity can harness the ocean to fight climate change and reverse the ongoing crisis in biodiversity and loss of species –though not the only way- is to establish effective marine…
Read MoreJune Is Abuzz with Ocean Celebrations…but how can you really make a difference?
Oceans are here, there and everywhere in the month of June. June 8th is World Ocean Day, June 8 to June 12 is the UN World Ocean Week, and in the US, the entire month of June has been designated by President Biden as National Ocean Month. The attention is well-deserved: oceans constitute about 70%…
Read MoreWomen are Making the Arnavon Islands Community Marine Park Stronger
By Lindsay Brubaker, Blue Parks Intern Featured Image: Arnavon Community Marine Park, © Robert Taupongi What does conservation look like without women? Research demonstrates that conservation efforts are more likely to succeed when women are involved, but in Melanesia, men are traditionally seen as the head of the household and as decision makers, so for years…
Read MoreMeet the 2021 Blue Park Award nominees, and help us evaluate them!
Blue Park Awards are given to outstanding marine protected areas (MPAs) that are helping to safeguard life in the sea. Nominees for the award go through a rigorous assessment using Blue Parks science-based criteria. They are the MPAs that are in the right places, with the right rules, and the right management to effectively protect…
Read MoreA Blue Park in a Changing Climate: New studies explore the successes and challenges of managing the Channel Islands MPAs in the face of a warming ocean
By Eleri Griffiths, Blue Parks Intern Featured Image: The Channel Islands MPA network is located in the Southern California Bight off the coast of southern California. It covers over 3,800 km2 of coastal and ocean waters and includes seagrass beds, kelp forests and coral gardens. The islands’ sandy beaches and rock formations are home to…
Read MoreA (Marine) Conservation Carol: A Visit from the Ghost of Conservation Past
https://marine-conservation.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/MPAtlas-Past-Blog-.mp3 A Decade (2011 – 2020) of Marine Conservation in Review Declared the UN Decade of Biodiversity, the past ten years brought about a lot of change in the field of marine conservation. At the beginning of the decade, the conservation of our oceans lagged behind the efforts to protect land with only about 2%…
Read MoreCoalition urges support to protect and conserve at least 30% of the global ocean.
Marine Conservation Institute Joins Coalition Statement to the Convention on Biological Diversity in Support of Conserving 30% of the Global Ocean “We need more humility as humans” and to give nature the respect it deserves, so we can “guarantee the future of the next generation, and this future begins now.”- Ludovic Burns Tuki The statement…
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