Latest posts tagged with #MPAS on Bluesky
🌊NEWS: 10% of the ocean is now designated as protected. We welcome this achievement, even if it comes six years late.
Progress matters, but real protection remains miniscule. Meaningful action is needed, like banning destructive fishing in #MPAs.
www.unep-wcmc.org/en/news/worl...
Not fully surprising but total disaster. 🇺🇸 was once a driving force for scientific fishing limits & #MPAs.
#30x30
Happy #WildlifeWednesday from Malpelo Fauna and Flora Sanctuary 💙
Remote, fully protected, and teeming with life – from reef species to whale sharks and hammerheads.
A powerful reminder of what the ocean can be when protection works.
#OceanConservation #MPAs
#MPAs to protect biodiversity beyond national jurisdiction is one of the most important promises of the #HighSeasTreaty. But for that to happen, the systems being put in place now must be fast, effective & workable in practice.
Follow PrepCom developments: https://bit.ly/3HBdD1u
Illustrated poster featuring colorful seahorses and abstract ocean motifs on a blue-green background. Text reads: "PrepCom must lay the groundwork for ambition, equity, and action—so BBNJ COP1 is ready to deliver #BBNJPrepCom.
The High Seas is under growing pressure: warming, acidification, overexploitation.
#BBNJPrepCom 3 must lay the groundwork for #BBNJCOP 1 to move quickly toward High Seas #MPAs and sustainable management of our ocean. @highseasalliance.bsky.social
Title, authors’ names, abstract, and keywords from a paper about evaluation of the governance and management of marine protected areas
The number of Marine Protected Areas (MPAs) is growing to meet the #30-by-30 global goal, but assessment methods of #MPAs vary widely. In a systematic literature review, Fujii and Makino identified 15 recurring topics with #stakeholder #participation being the most prevalent doi.org/10.1016/j.oc...
A colorful illustration of a seahorse surrounded by oceanic elements. The text reads: "PrepCom must lay the groundwork for ambition, equity, and action—so BBNJ COP1 is ready to deliver. #BBNJPrepCom.
The High Seas is under growing pressure: warming, acidification, overexploitation.
#BBNJPrepCom 3 must lay the groundwork for #BBNJCOP 1 to move quickly toward High Seas #MPAs and sustainable management of our ocean.
The #HighSeasTreaty could be a game-changer: only 1% of oceans are truly protected, but now countries can safeguard more! Overfished species can recover—if we let them 🌊
#DanielPauly: “We are not helpless.” Every choice counts.
#SustainableFisheries #MPAs #FishBase www.bigissue.com/life/food/mo...
With the new #UnitedNations #HighSeasTreaty, German scientists investigate how new international #MarineProtectedAreas respond to #ClimateChange 🌍
www.eurekalert.org/news-release...
#AAAS #MPAs #MarineEcology #Climate
Yet, to reach #30x30 ocean target, we need to:
🌊 add daily 42,234 km² of new MPAs (roughly the size of Denmark 🇩🇰)
🌊 Manage all these #MPAs effectively & equitably.
Rolling up our sleeves at @blueactionfund.org to do our little contribution...
10% milestone reached 🎉🥳: In the last year, #MPAs coverage increased by around 1% to 9.75%. With most recent designations in 🇨🇱 & 🇧🇷, we should have surpassed the 10% Milestone (& thus reached former Aichi Target) 🕺💃. #OceanOptimism #30x30 #COP17
🥳🎉3 new #MPAs in 🇩🇪.
Detailed descriptions about the sites, process etc. (in German) ➡️ ogy.de/eh6k #OceanOptimism #30x30 @umweltministerium.de @oceanunger.bsky.social
Interested in #MPAs and 🌊 #30x30? Please follow Marine Conservation Institute at @savingoceans.bsky.social
#MPAAtlas #BlueParks 🥳
Right on time for PrepCom, @iddri.bsky.social publishes guide on leveraging technologies for monitoring, control & surveillance of high seas #MPAs. ogy.de/vczj
#30x30 #BBNJ
Australia makes waves for #Target3
167 new protected & conserved areas were added to the #WDPCA, including 11 Indigenous Protected Areas & Australia’s first #OECM.
A massive 400% expansion of the Heard & McDonald Islands makes it one of the largest #MPAs on Earth
www.unep-wcmc.org/en/news/aust...
🚨 Bottom trawling in the North Sea is driving a hidden climate cost, new research shows
Fishing for scampi disturbs carbon that's been locked in seabed mud for thousands of years, according to scientists. This destruction must end!
#BanBottomTrawling in #MPAs 🌊
https://bit.ly/4rk5Qf6
We went to see Sir. David Attebborough’s ‘Ocean’, with live orchestra accompaniment @ulsterorchestra.bsky.social. A story about the massive world-wide industrial scale over-fishing with hope that we act to create #MPAs with no bottom trawling.
youtu.be/cIZAdCtKT_g
It will be held tomorrow, March 4, at 2:15 EDT—please come by if you're attending!
🌊 The summit is focusing on turning sustainable ocean commitments into concrete actions. The recent ratification of the High Seas Biodiversity Treaty (BBNJ) provides tools to create #MPAs on the high seas.
PML's Prof Kerry Howell @deepseaecol.bsky.social joins a session on the effective and equitable implementation of #30×30, how #MarineProtectedAreas ( #MPAs) can be expanded in economically viable ways, & what financing, governance & leadership are needed to turn commitments into credible protection.
Recovery of marine #TopPredators is achievable. Our global review identified 481 success stories. The commonest management measure was bycatch reduction (57%), followed by the establishment of #MPAs (15%) and #InvasiveSpecies management (6%)
👉 www.frontiersin.org/journals/mar...
🌍🌐🧪 #OceanOptimism
It was huge news in 2024 when the #Azores established its huge Marine Protected Areas Network, which 19 species of #whales & 19 #sharks, plus sea turtles & more call home
So when these #MPAs were pressured to open up for fishing recently, there was a big outcry
That measure has now been defeated:
Scientists and experts explain why the #HighSeasTreaty is a historic achievement, and the proposals for marine protected areas (#MPAs) in the High Seas can set precedents for future conservation efforts and influence the pace and scope of protection across the High Seas.
this screenshot, from the Protected Planet, shows the current situation of MPAs, you can navigate there
You can discover the #MPAs in the world, and their status, using this link of Protected Planet, where 16,805 MPAs are presented
www.protectedplanet.net/en/thematic-areas/marine...
#GES4SEAS #MOOC #oceanoptimism
#MarineEcology #Research
this table, from the Marine Protection Atlas, shows the status of the marine protection areas in the world
Implemented and designated Marine Protected Areas #MPAs occupy >23 M km2 and there are >10 M km2 proposed.
We are still far from the objective of 30% but….
#GES4SEAS #MOOC #oceanoptimism
#MarineEcology #Research
Expanding #MPAs does not guarantee protection.
Azores’ recent new MPAs, as well as newly designated areas, miss key coastal ecosystems protection.
This letter in @science.org calls for scientific evidence, transparency and stakeholder participation to deliver real biodiversity and social benefits.
this graph from Duarte et al, in Nature in 2020, shows the global increase in marine protected areas and the restoration projects on coral reefs, mangroves, seagrasses, etc.
These authors show the global growth of restoration interventions,
These have been done in #MPAs Marine Protected Areas, #coral and oyster reefs, #saltmarshes, #mangroves, kelps and #seagrasses
There is a clear increase of recovery in recent years
#GES4SEAS […]
[Original post on fediscience.org]
150+ countries back @ipbes.net: GDP growth is driving #EUbiodiversity collapse. Yet the EU Commission is pushing deregulation in the name of competitiveness.
Ignoring science is self-sabotage.
#HandsOffNature @vonderleyen.ec.europa.eu
ipbes.net/node/97532
#MPAs #RethinkFisheries
#MPAs marine protected areas are good solutions to rebuild depleted resources, as in Baja California, but also in many places around the globe
#MarineEcology
#Research
