IUCN Joint SSC/WCPA Task Force on Marine Mammal Protected Areas (MMPATF)
01. What is Marine Spatial Planning?
Don't be intimidated by the phrase, Marine Spatial Planning (MSP)! Read the Marine Spatial Planning brochure (La Planification Spatiale Marine) for a succinct description of MSP and its integrated planning at multiple scales.
09. Seventy-one Important Research Questions for Marine Conservation
Scientific research is something all of us were exposed to in school and something we hear routinely in the news. In principle, science is supposed to interact with agencies and organizations entrusted with managing protected areas and other managed areas. Science ultimately provides the information for management decisions and to understand ecological processes and patterns, even while identifying new issues not yet recognized by the public or protected area managers. We have neither the expertise nor the funding to study everything that needs to be studied.
Where to Pick up Ocean Plastic
Where to Pick up Ocean Plastic
THE BEST PLACES TO PICK UP OCEAN PLASTIC AREN’T THE BIG GARBAGE PATCHES