WWF-Greater Mekong is seeking to recruit well-qualified and experienced candidates for position of Technical Advisor, Protected Areas Management, Carbi Project WWF is one of the world's largest and ...

Wastewater pollution levels are higher inside many marine protected areas than in nearby unprotected areas, according to a ...

Indonesia has put nearly a tenth of its waters under some form of protection, and intends to expand this to nearly a third by 2045. However, a study has found that none of Indonesia’s existing marine ...

The following notes are a brief introduction to the system. They are followed by an extract from the IUCN publication Guidelines for Protected Area Management Categories (IUCN, 1994). The definition ...

Our inshore ocean ecosystem is suffering from multiple stressors and Marine Protected Areas (MPAs) could be helping us find causes and make improvements.

Data before decisions, adaptive fisheries management and mandatory recreational fishing licences are on the list of proposals being drawn up by the Fishermen’s Association of Bermuda. The organisation ...

In the field of marine conservation, a marine protected area (MPA) is an expanse of sea, ocean, estuaries, coastal waters, and, in the United States, the U.S. Great Lakes, where fishing, mining, ...

Efforts to restore coastal ecosystems made progress as the Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) and local ...

The concept of protecting marine areas from fishing and other human activities is not new. In the nonmarket economies of island nations in Oceania (Polynesia, Melanesia, and Micronesia), measures to ...