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If you haven't discovered this yet, MPA is an acronym for Marine Protected Areas. This section brings to you summary works and information from around the world exploring what MPA's are, what they can do, why we need them, and how to create them. Overseas there are some huge advances being made in this area as the first functioning networks of marine protected areas emerge - there is much for us to consider and learn from these overseas examples.
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The governing body of the IUCN has approved guidelines for applying the precautionary principle in conservation and natural resource management. The precautionary principle provides a fundamental policy basis for anticipating and avoiding threats to the environment: namely, that action to protect the environment may be necessary before scientific certainty of harm is established.
Added to archive on 06/13/2007 and placed in the following categories:
MPA's and Networks International | MPA Process |
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MPA NEWS, Vol. 8, No. 11 (June 2007)
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Newsletter to Be Launched on Ecosystem-Based Management; Will Serve as Sister Publication to MPA News
Planners Discuss Role of Science and Socioeconomics in California MPA-Planning Process
MPA Perspective:
Notes & News: Indonesia - Pacific Islands - Papahanaumokuakea - Precautionary principle - Marine spatial planning - High seas MPAs - MPA categories
MPA Tip: Managing Visitor Impact
Added to archive on 06/12/2007 and placed in the following categories:
MPA's and Networks International | MPA News |
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New guidebook summarising key points in building MPA networks based on emerging international best practice was released in April 2007 at the summit meeting of the marine program of the IUCN World Commission on Protected Areas (WCPA-Marine). A full technical report to flesh out the summary report’s framework is expected to be released later in 2007.
Added to archive on 05/27/2007 and placed in the following categories:
MPA's and Networks International |
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Monthly Newsletter all about marine conservation happening around the world
Added to archive on 05/19/2007 and placed in the following categories:
MPA's and Networks International | MPA News |
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