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Palau is a sovereign state with a UN vote... In 2015 the country designated 80% of its territorial waters " an area roughly the size of Spain " as a National Marine Sanctuary. In the "Bul", as the sanctuary is known locally, commercial fishing is off limits.

A workshop on business planning was recently held to support the financial future of protected areas in Seychelles.

This website was developed as a tool to managers, scientists and users of Marine Protected Areas (MPAs). With this tool, you can classify any MPA based on the regulations (allowed uses) which apply to those areas. Click on the link below to visit the website/tool.

Although participatory planning for conservation has gained prominence over the past few decades, whether this process is successful in protecting biodiversity is still controversial.Click on the link below for details on how to access the full paper (pdf).

A key goal of protected areas is the conservation of biodiversity. Increasing visitation, however, can compromise ecological integrity.

This paper highlights a disjunction between the basic motivation of conservation planners, policy-makers, and managers, which is to make a positive difference for biodiversity, and many of our day-to-day activities, which are tangential (at best) to the goal of avoiding biodiversity loss.Click on

Covering 2.4 million hectares, the Sepik River will be one of the largest riverine Ramsar Sites and will cover the river from its upper reaches to the sea.Click on the link below to read the full article.

 "Their future is our future " sustainable development for wildlife and people" is at the heart of the Twelfth Conference of the Parties to the Convention on the conservation of Migratory Species of Wild Animals (CMS COP12) in Manila, the Philippines this week.

The 12th Conference of Parties of the Convention on Migratory Species (CMS COP12) today accepted the proposal by Samoa and Sri Lanka to list the blue shark on CMS Appendix II, acknowledging that the species is currently under threat and would benefit from collaborative conservation measures.Click

Approximately 20 million Blue Sharks are killed each year, propelling Samoa and Sri Lanka to jointly propose to place the species on a special global list asking countries to conserve them and protect their habitat. Click on the link below to read the full article.