Exploring ?Other Effective? Forms of Coastal and Marine Conservation

..."other effective area-based conservation measures" or OECMs, namely areas outside state-governed protected areas that are nevertheless high in biodiversity. The term was included in an important international conservation commitment, the Aichi Biodiversity Targets, agreed in 2010 by Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD). A recent paper on OECMs argues that the development of OECM frameworks will widen the scope and nature of area"based measures that deliver the goal of in situ conservation of biological diversity and ecosystem services in marine environments.Click on the link below to read the full article and to access the the full paper on OECMs.