Incentives that are designed to enable smarter use of the ocean while also protecting marine ecosystems can and do work, and offer significant hope to help address the multiple environmental... Read more
An ocean-going drone will be helping to spot illegal fishing in the world’s largest, continuous marine reserve. The UK said it would establish the 834,000-sq-km (322,000-sq-mile) zone... Read more
Marine scientists are calling for a re-think of how marine protected areas (MPAs) are planned and coordinated, following a global assessment of the conservation of tropical corals and fishes... Read more
Conservation scientists say there needs to be a new approach to protecting offshore marine reserves. Illegal fishing in marine reserves will be a major focus at the IUCN World Parks Congress... Read more
But it would be an overreaction to despair over this report. One of the few bright spots in the struggle to protect the world’s fragile oceans has been the rapidly increasing number of “mari... Read more