Due to the COVID-19 restrictions, the Department of Conservation (DOC) and Fisheries New Zealand are postponing public consultation on the proposed network of marine protection for the southeast South Island...The proposed network includes 6 marine reserves, where marine life would be fully prote
The largest turtle in the ocean, the leatherback gets its name from its tough, rubbery skin...Migrating long distances a year, the turtle can cross the Pacific Ocean.
Major review reports recovery of marine life but a redoubling of efforts is still needed. The glory of the world’s oceans could be restored within a generation, according to a major new scientific review.
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The proposed network includes six marine reserves, where marine life would be fully protected and fishing banned, five marine protected areas, which would impose a range of restrictions to fishing, and one kelp protection area and where commercial harvest of bladder kelp would be prohibited.
There’s a lot of concern that we only have a 10-year window to protect the amount of habitat we need, and to slow climate change,” said Dr.
The marine environment is vital for Fiji's tourism sector, yet industry and community partnerships to conserve it have largely gone unrecognised. A study from March to October 2017 documented the extent and scale to which ‘Marine Conservation Agreements’ (MCAs) between tourism operators and indigenous, resource owning communities are used in Fiji, and their contribution to biodiversity conservation and fisheries management.
Shark experts have named a great white after basketball legend Kobe Bryant, who was apparently fascinated with the fearsome creatures.
Two artificial reefs made from about 3000 tyres will be removed from Guam's Cocos Lagoon. The Pacific Daily News reports the tyre reefs were created 50 years ago in the hope of increasing fish stocks.
In the first days of 2020, the Pacific Ocean archipelago nation of Palau took the momentous step of protecting 80 percent — 500,000 square kilometers — of its exclusive economic zone (EEZ) from fishing.