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Habitat destruction and infectious disease are dual threats to nature and people. The potential to simultaneously advance conservation and human health has attracted considerable scientific and popular interest.Click on the link below to read the full article.

MPAs are generally designed to protect the habitats and biodiversity of today. Where there is a coral reef, for example, or where there is a particular species of interest, we design an MPA around it.

Lagoons have always fascinated me. The size, shape, and length of a lagoon " and the number of channels that connect inner lagoonal waters with the open ocean " influence the types of coral communities that form within.Click on the link below to read the full blog.

Henderson Island, part of the Pitcairn group is one of the world"s most remote places, an uninhabited coral atoll, is also one of its most polluted...Marine scientists have found the tiny landmass in the Pacific to is covered by 18 tonnes of plastic -  the highest density of anthropogen

Human-created pollution is not a minor threat to our oceans, but a massive and worsening issue...The Ocean Cleanup has announced an update to its pollution-collecting technology.

Few will have heard of PCBs - polychlorinated biphenyls. The chemicals were banned in the late 70s amid fears about their toxicity. Recent estimates suggest that Europe produced anything between 299,000 and 585,000 tonnes of PCBs.

Nature preserves are a noble idea...But new research suggests that there’s one thing these areas don’t give animals: peace and quiet.

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Surprisingly little attention has been paid to variation among countries in contributions to conservation.

Has having to figure out if you want to do management (EBM), integrated coastal zone management (ICZM), area based management (ABM), whole domain management (WDM), or marine spatial planning (MSP) got you down" You are in luck.

Locally managed marine areas (LMMAs) are often recommended as a strategy to achieve conservation and fisheries management, though few studies have evaluated their performance against these objectives.