A rising tide of blog posts and literature from concerned MPA experts
Chris Pala Championing Ocean Conservation Or Paying Lip Service to the Seas?
Spalding, M. D., Meliane, I., Milam, A., Fitzgerald, C., and Hale, L. Z., 2013, Protecting Marine Spaces: global targets and changing approaches: Ocean Yearbook, v. 27, p. 213-248.
Poaching in the worlds largest manta "sanctuary"? [My quotes -- there are no safe haves for chondrichthyans]
Ray Hilborn asserts that MPAs are causing a food security crisis -- that might be true if they actually worked! My editorial argues that MPAs aren't actually working for species conservation. This paper reflects my personal growing unease, but from the supportive emails I have received this unease seems to be shared by many of those that actually known an awful lot about MPAs:
Australia’s new marine protected areas: why they won’t work by Bob Pressey, and thr associated paper has just come out online
Devillers R, Pressey RL, Grech A, Kittinger JN, Edgar GJ, Ward T, Watson R. 2014. Reinventing residual reserves in the sea: are we favouring ease of establishment over need for protection? Aquatic Conservation: Marine and Freshwater Ecosystems n/a-n/a.
Qualifying just any spatial zoning as an ‘MPA’ only diminishes the tool by Joachim Claudet
Leenhardt, P., Cazalet, B., Salvat, B., Claudet, J. & Feral, F. (In Press) The rise of large-scale marine protected areas: Conservation or geopolitics? Ocean & Coastal Management. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ocecoaman.2013.08.013
De Santo, E. M. 2013. Missing marine protected area (MPA) targets: How the push for quantity over quality undermines sustainability and social justice. J Environ Manage 124:137-146.
Spalding, M. D., Meliane, I., Milam, A., Fitzgerald, C., and Hale, L. Z., 2013, Protecting Marine Spaces: global targets and changing approaches: Ocean Yearbook, v. 27, p. 213-248.
Poaching in the worlds largest manta "sanctuary"? [My quotes -- there are no safe haves for chondrichthyans]
Ray Hilborn asserts that MPAs are causing a food security crisis -- that might be true if they actually worked! My editorial argues that MPAs aren't actually working for species conservation. This paper reflects my personal growing unease, but from the supportive emails I have received this unease seems to be shared by many of those that actually known an awful lot about MPAs:
Australia’s new marine protected areas: why they won’t work by Bob Pressey, and thr associated paper has just come out online
Devillers R, Pressey RL, Grech A, Kittinger JN, Edgar GJ, Ward T, Watson R. 2014. Reinventing residual reserves in the sea: are we favouring ease of establishment over need for protection? Aquatic Conservation: Marine and Freshwater Ecosystems n/a-n/a.
Qualifying just any spatial zoning as an ‘MPA’ only diminishes the tool by Joachim Claudet
Leenhardt, P., Cazalet, B., Salvat, B., Claudet, J. & Feral, F. (In Press) The rise of large-scale marine protected areas: Conservation or geopolitics? Ocean & Coastal Management. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ocecoaman.2013.08.013
De Santo, E. M. 2013. Missing marine protected area (MPA) targets: How the push for quantity over quality undermines sustainability and social justice. J Environ Manage 124:137-146.
