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Marine Protected Area News
Oceans fourteen: a round-up of marine-related activities at the 14th CITES Conference of Parties
Despite the thirteenth Conference of Parties of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES) strongly reaffirming the contribution of the convention to the sustainable harvest of marine resources, at COP 14, the Parties seemed to back away from this approach to resource management. …
18 Jun 2007 | News story
Caribbean Corals in Danger of Extinction
Climate Change, Warmer Waters Cited as Leading Cause … | French | Spanish
07 Jun 2007 | International news release
CITES conference to impact on music, food, and jewelry industry
Wood species used for violin bows, shark species featured in British fish and chip meals and coral species exploited for jewelry rank high on the CITES conference agenda for international trade controls in endangered species, opening on Sunday. …
04 Jun 2007 | International news release
One in six European mammals threatened with extinction shows new assessment by the World Conservation Union (IUCN)
The first assessment of all European mammals, carried out by the World Conservation Union (IUCN), shows that nearly one in every six mammal species is now threatened with extinction. Europe is now home to the world’s most threatened cat species, the Iberian Lynx, and the world’s most threatened seal, the Mediterranean Monk Seal. …
22 May 2007 | News story
Saving western gray whales - IUCN release summary brochure on the conservation project for the critically endangered western gray whale population
Business has joined forces with the World Conservation
Union (IUCN) to better understand the biology of
and threats to western gray whales. The purpose of
this broad engagement is to do everything possible
to ensure the survival and recovery of this population. …
21 May 2007 | News story
Indonesian survey demonstrates that marine protected areas accelerate coral recovery
Marine protected areas greatly boost both coral recovery and the abundance of coral reef fish. This is the main finding of a survey on coral reefs in the northern Sumatran islands of Weh and Aceh earlier this year. Set up mainly to monitor the recovery of corals following the 2004 tsunami, the 2007 survey found that human management had a greater impact on reef fish abundance than the tsunami. …
04 May 2007 | News story
Boosting alternative livelihood creation in Asia
While many programmes and projects dealing with natural resource management in the South Asia region have included alternative livelihood components, these have often been poorly conceived and ineffective in their implementation. To address the lack of institutional capacity within the region to systematically approach
alternative livelihood creation in a participatory and poverty-focused way, IUCN and Integrated Marine Management Ltd (IMM) organised the first of three workshops from January 27 to February 3 in Tuticorin, Tamil Nadu, India. …
03 May 2007 | News story
Oil business and conservation work to protect Western Pacific Gray Whales
Sakhalin Energy and the Western Gray Whale Advisory Panel, convened by the World Conservation Union (IUCN), have agreed to work together on seismic surveys and oil spill prevention. These are some of the biggest threats to the critically endangered Western Gray Whales from the oil and gas development in the whales’ feeding area, off Sakhalin island. …
27 Apr 2007 | News story
“The oil spill” – How the Lebanese environment was affected by the war
The World Conservation Union (IUCN) and partners launch new documentary of the Lebanon oil spill and its impact on the environment. …
26 Apr 2007 | News story
28 recommendations on deep-sea fisheries
IUCN was part of the Expert Consultation on deep-sea fisheries on the high seas who have recently released a report of conclusions and recommendations to deep-sea fisheries on the high seas. Among them was recognition that spatial and temporal management tools such as Marine Protected Areas are particularly useful in data-poor situations such as encountered in the deep seas. …
24 Apr 2007 | News story
