By prioritizing marine conservation, the small island nation has "set a new standard for leadership" one expert said.

Four marine protected areas have been created in Senegal’s coastal zone, protecting fisheries and biodiversity covering more than 7,500km2. Durban, South Africa – Senegalese Fisheries Minister Pape ...

Silky 1, for example, swam 7,000 km (4,350 mi) in seven months and visited marine protected areas in Cocos Island ... don’t know where the lines on a map are and they just follow their most ...

The Blue Prosperity Plan has unveiled revised draft maps for the proposed marine protected area [MPA] network which “highlight significant changes that accommodate feedback received from the ...

Oceana uncovers over 17,000 hours of destructive fishing inside France’s Marine Nature Parks, Calls on President Macron to ...

A new global analysis finds that many of the world's most threatened seagrass meadows lie within designated Marine Protected Areas (MPAs ... comprehensive global maps ever produced of the ...

“Most European 'Marine Protected Areas' are just lines on a map, paper parks which do nothing to stop the ongoing destruction ...

California established a network of marine protected areas. MPAs cover roughly 16% of California’s state waters. A long, reddish and black sheephead wove through a maze of towering kelp in a ...

Many existing marine protected ... differentiate the areas by their real-world effectiveness. “This gives us more nuance to our understanding than just looking at lines on maps,” said Jessica ...

It’s also why countries around the world have been creating marine protected areas. These protected areas, covering over 11.6 million square miles (30 million square kilometers) in 16,000 ...