France claims to have already protected over 30% of its waters, but these findings show that most of these “protections” are on paper only. In France’s European waters, bottom trawling is widespread, ...

Setting up the world’s biggest giant tropical forest reserve in the Congo Basin is a step towards conserving the area and ...

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

Environmental NGOs ClientEarth and Oceana are suing the nation of Spain for refusing to cooperate in investigations into ...

From the home of the world’s largest spider, to hotspots for globally threatened sea turtles, the International Union for ...

The approach was pioneered by Angel Alcala, a Filipino biologist who has championed the creation of small, community-managed marine protected areas (MPAs). Often the prime reason for creating ...

TSITSIKAMMA residents are delighted that the government will allow them to fish in parts of Africa’s oldest marine protected area, proclaimed to help rejuvenate South Africa’s heavily ...

The protected areas of Central Africa cover 15 percent of the land area and five percent of the marine area of the region. "Permits have already been allocated for 27% of protected areas" in 10 ...

The new Changuu-Bawe Marine Conservation Area covers the entire coast of Bawe Island. It is now the country's sixth Marine Protected Area, and it prohibits all fishing activities, according to a ...

Fish farms boomed globally in recent decades — more than half the world’s seafood now comes from aquaculture — but it’s not a ...

Cory Pukini wasn’t surprised when he spotted a pair of kayakers on a recent Friday morning illegally fishing inside a marine protected area off La ... a laminated map of the state’s coast ...

Local activists in Senegal have voiced their frustration with foreign overfishing and its contribution to the migration crisis. Karim Sall, President of AGIRE, a Senegalese organization operating in ...