Marine NZ

Precis. Fully Protected Marine Reserves : a guide
Author(s): Callum M Roberts et al

Callum M Roberts and Julie P Hawkins, fully protected marine reserves - a guide, answers all your questions about marine reserves. Fantastic summary points and key lessons for the creation of new reserves.

Pacific Oceanscape
Author(s): The Republic of Kiribati

A Secure Future for Pacific Island Nations Based on Ocean Conservation and Management
By The Republic of Kiribati
President Anote Tong

I. Purpose:
A summary briefing document for President Anote Tong (Kiribati) to use as a country initiative announcement at the Pacific Leaders Forum (4-7 August 2009, Cairns Australia).

II. Next steps:
Following review, amendment as needed and endorsement by Kiribati, officials need to notify the Pacific Island Forum Secretariat (PIFS) of this Kiribati country initiative at the PPAC meeting (14-15 July 2009) or soon thereafter.

III. Desired goal:
Kiribati announces the Pacific Oceanscape and component Pacific Ocean Arcs at the 2009 Pacific Leaders Forum with an invitation for collaboration in this initiative consistent with the Pacific Plan and the Forum Leaders Ocean Policy.  Kiribati, with the support from Conservation International, can further develop this concept for partnership and resourcing at the Regional Marine Managed Areas Meeting (November, 2009, French Polynesia).

IV. Rationale
Ocean conservation and management is the preeminent issue of our time and our region. Pacific Island people have depended on the ocean and its resources for millennia. But with rising sea levels, declining fishery resources, warming ocean temperatures, and pollution, the oceans are now changing rapidly in ways that our ancestors could not imagine, and in ways that degrade our people’s lives and threaten our existence. The time has come for our region to join together and face common threats to the ocean, a resource that moves between our communities and that we share like the atmosphere we breathe. The time has come for a new Pacific Ocean vision as demonstrated by the Pacific Oceanscape. 

Pacific Islands regional guidelines for Whale and Dolphin watching 2008
Author(s): South Pacific Whale Research Consortium

Whale Watching Guidelines

Report on Annual meeting of the South Pacific Whale Research Consortium
Author(s): South Pacific Whale Research Consortium

This report from the South Pacific Whale Research Consortium is for the consideration of the Scientific Committee of the International Whaling Commission

National Marine Sancturies for whales in the Pacific
Author(s): South Pacific Whale Research Consortium

National Marine Sancturies in the Pacific relating to Whales

Mystery of the missing Humpbacks
Author(s): Science Mag

Whale Stocks - illegal hunting
Mystery of the Missing Humpbacks solved by Soviet Data http://www.sciencemag.org

MPA News Vol. 9, No. 2 August 2007
Author(s): MPA News

International news and analysis on marine protected areas

A Framework for Systematic Marine Reserve Design in South Australia: A Case Study
Author(s): RR Stewart and HP Possingham

Ad hoc reserve design has been shown to produce inefficient reserve systems in terrestrial environments, limiting opportunities to achieve conservation goals. In this paper, the authors have devised a framework for systematic marine reserve design using South Australia as a case study. The framework consists of the reservation goals, a database of conservation features, a method for identifying conservation priorities and measures to evaluate the performance of alternative marine reserve systems.

Marine Applications of SPEXAN/SITES/MARXAN as of December 2002
Author(s): Heather M Leslie

This is an excerpt from a database of locations and approaches to marine conservation planning approaches compiled by Heather Leslie.

A Synthesis of Marine Conservation Planning Approaches
Author(s): Heather M Leslie

In the last decade, there has been increasing interest—particularly among international nongovernmental and multilateral development organizations—in evaluating the effectiveness of conservation and development projects. To evaluate success, we need more comprehensive and case-specific information on how conservation decisions are made. This paper investigates a database that synthesizes information on 27 marine conservation planning cases from around the world. The author collected data on each case’s geographic scale, primary planning objective and outcome, legal and institutional context, degree of stakeholder involvement, and the ecological criteria and tools used to facilitate conservation decisions.