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Marine protected areas for dive tourism [PDF]

Scientific Reports
Marine and coastal tourism deliver economic benefits to coastal communities that far surpass those generated by fisheries, yet its potential contribution to global marine conservation remains underexamined.
Reniel B. Cabral, Katherine D. Millage, Juan Mayorga, Tia Kordell, Mukta Kelkar, Alicia M. Caughman, Fabio Favoretto, Anna Schuhbauer, Octavio Aburto-Oropeza, Enric Sala, Darcy Bradley   +10 more
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The Marine Protected Areas debate: Implications for the proposed Phakisa Marine Protected Areas Network

South African Journal of Science, 2016
South Africa recently had the privilege of hosting prominent fisheries scientist Professor Ray Hilborn from Washington University who stimulated lively discussion on global stock status, food production, impacts of trawling on the seabed, fisheries management and Marine Protected Areas (MPAs). Professor Hilborn gave a seminar billed as 'Fisheries Myths'
Kerry Sink
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The Important Marine Mammal Area Network: A Tool for Systematic Spatial Planning in Response to the Marine Mammal Habitat Conservation Crisis

Frontiers in Marine Science, 2022
The Important Marine Mammal Areas (IMMAs) initiative was launched by the Marine Mammal Protected Areas Task Force of the International Union for the Conservation of Nature in 2016, as a response to a conservation crisis in the protection of marine ...
Michael J. Tetley, Gill T. Braulik, Gill T. Braulik, Caterina Lanfredi, Caterina Lanfredi, Gianna Minton, Gianna Minton, Simone Panigada, Simone Panigada, Elena Politi, Elena Politi, Margherita Zanardelli, Margherita Zanardelli, Giuseppe Notarbartolo di Sciara, Giuseppe Notarbartolo di Sciara, Erich Hoyt, Erich Hoyt   +16 more
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Climate benefits from establishing marine protected areas targeted at blue carbon solutions [PDF]

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2022
Emilia Jankowska, Jimena Alvarez, Mamta Mehra   +2 more
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Marine protected areas

, 2019
Marine protected areas (MPAs) play an important role in protecting and conserving our global ocean ecosystems. The history and development of MPAs around the world are addressed, from early stages to current levels of protection today, through to globally recognized progressive targets for ocean conservation. This outlines the positive benefits of MPAs,
Laffoley, Dan, Baxter, John M., Day, Jon C., Wenzel, Lauren, Bueno, Paula, Zischka, Katherine   +5 more
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Evidence for use of both capital and income breeding strategies in the mangrove tree crab, Aratus pisonii

Scientific Reports, 2021
Two common strategies organisms use to finance reproduction are capital breeding (using energy stored prior to reproduction) and income breeding (using energy gathered during the reproductive period). Understanding which of these two strategies a species
Jade Carver, Morgan Meidell, Zachary J. Cannizzo, Blaine D. Griffen   +3 more
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Self-financed marine protected areas

Environmental Research Letters, 2021
Marine protected areas (MPAs) are an important tool for conservation but can be victims of their own success—higher fish biomass within MPAs create incentives to poach.
Katherine D Millage, Juan Carlos Villaseñor-Derbez, Darcy Bradley, Matthew G Burgess, Hunter S Lenihan, Christopher Costello   +5 more
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A meta‐analysis examining how fish biodiversity varies with marine protected area size and age

Ecosphere, 2023
Marine protected areas (MPAs) are a well‐established conservation practice worldwide, but their effectiveness in protecting or replenishing fish biodiversity remains uneven.
Helene A. L. Hollitzer, Felix May, Shane A. Blowes   +2 more
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Healing the wounds of marine mammals by protecting their habitat

Ethics in Science and Environmental Politics, 2020
Important marine mammal areas (IMMAs)—‘discrete habitat areas, important for one or more marine mammal species, that have the potential to be delineated and managed for conservation’ (IUCN Marine Mammal Protected Areas Task Force 2018, p.
G Notarbartolo di Sciara, E Hoyt
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Analysis of Factors Affecting Fishermen Participation in Marine Protected Area East Java

Jurnal Pembangunan dan Alam Lestari, 2022
The main failure of Marine Protected Areas (MPA) in achieving its objectives is the lack of involvement of users (communities) and stakeholders in the planning and decision-making processes, with unforeseen social consequences.
Reny Tiarantika, Anthon Efani
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