The National Geographic, September 2014, reports: “If an alien had just one day on Earth and wanted to see a coral reef,” says National Geographic Explorer-in-Residence Enric Sala, “I would show him Millennium Atoll.” What that alien would see is one part of perhaps the most pristine archipelago in the Pacific: five remote isles named […]
» Reserves
- The Pacific Southern Line Islands are a benchmark for pristine seas
- G. Monbiot article observes: “Conservation in a conservation zone? You must be out of your mind”
- Marine Conservation Society launches Marine Charter to lobby for more MCZs
- The Global Oceans Commission has a Petition addressed to the UN
- Australian Great Barrier Reef may not be subjected to new port’s spoil dumping
- Global Oceans Commission launches petition in support of its Report
- Government lethargy in protecting the sea off Cromer
- Marinet asks: Does “co-location” feature in anyone’s thinking for effective MCZ delivery?
- Parliament’s Environmental Audit Committee publishes English MCZ report
- English MCZ network “is worse than useless”
- US to create huge central Pacific marine reserve
- WWF urges OSPAR to take action to ensure effective protection of NE Atlantic high seas MPAs
- Parliament critical of the Government over English MCZ delivery
- Does Parliament’s Environmental Audit Committee understand the need for MCZs?
- “Governing MPAs: Resilience through Diversity” – new study published
- Marinet asks: Is Parliament holding the Minister to account over MCZs?
- Blakeney NNR future in question
- OSPAR announces increased protection for iconic biodiversity in NE Atlantic
- Proposal for the Isle of Arran MPA receives strong support
- Government promises more English MCZs over the next three years
George Monbiot writes in his article in The Guardian, 24th October 2014: “A few days ago, I visited the Flamborough Head “no take zone”, one of the UK’s three areas in which commercial fishing is prohibited. Here marine life is allowed to proliferate, without being menaced by trawlers, scallop dredgers, drift nets, pots and all […]
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The Marine Conservation Society has launched a Marine Charter, which is asking people to lobby their Member of Parliament to secure improvement in the UK, Scottish and Welsh government designated network of Marine Conservation Zones. The Marine Charter reads: “Our seas and their amazing wildlife need better protection. We’re working with NGOs, through Wildlife and […]
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The Global Ocean Commission is seeking protection under law via the United Nations Law of the Sea (UNCLOSUNCLOS The United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea, also called the Law of the Sea Convention or the Law of the Sea treaty.) for greater protection of the planet’s high seas (the area of the […]
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The Guardian reports, 6th September 2014: “The deputy premier of Queensland, Jeff Seeney, will put a plan to state cabinet that would reverse the decision to dump sediment from the Abbot Point coal port development on the Great Barrier Reef, disposing of it on land instead, according to a report. Seeney told the Weekend Australian […]
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A Global Ocean Commission press release, 3rd July 2014, states: “A week ago the Global Ocean Commission released its report and proposals for restoring ocean health. If you have not seen the report you can see it here. “As part of the Global Ocean Commission’s commitment to breathe life into its proposals it has started […]
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The plan to create 127 Marine Conservation Zones around the UK was launched four years ago, yet the green light has not yet been given to designate a single zone in either Norfolk or Suffolk, although it is claimed that the Cromer shoalshoal A sandbank or sandbar that makes the water shallow chalk beds are […]
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Marinet observes that co-location — where marine reserves exist in conjunction with other licensed uses of the sea — appears to have been forgotten or ignored by nearly all conservation practitioners in the delivery of the UK marine conservation (MCZMCZ Marine Conservation Zone) network. Marinet believes this is an extraordinary situation because co-location, with marine […]
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The House of Commons Environmental Audit Committee (EAC) published on 21st June 2014 a report of its investigation into the delivery of marine conservation zones (MCZsMCZ Marine Conservation Zone) to date in English seas by the UK Government. The summary of the EAC report reads: “In November 2013 the Government designated 27 Marine Conservation Zones […]
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Callum Roberts, Professor of Marine Conservation at The University of York, writes in The Guardian 17th July 2014: “0.000001 – one hundred thousandth — is a number so small that to most people it seems like nothing at all. Yet four and a half years since the Marine Act of 2009 came into force — […]
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The Washington Post, 17th June 2014, reports: “ President Obama has announced his intent to make a broad swath of the central Pacific Ocean off-limits to fishing, energy exploration and other activities. The proposal, slated to go into effect later this year after a comment period, could create the world’s largest marine sanctuary and double […]
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In a Press Release dated 20th June 2014, WWF state: “ (Gland, Switzerland/Cascais, Portugal) – Parties to the OSPAROSPAR Convention for the Protection of the Marine Environment of the North-East Atlantic made up of representatives of the Governments of the 15 signatory nations. Convention for the Protection of the Marine Environment of the North-East Atlantic […]
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The Guardian reports, 21st June 2014: “Four years since the launch of the government project to create a national network of Marine Conservation Zones (MCZsMCZ Marine Conservation Zone) designed to protect sea life and give fish stocks space to recover, only 27 of the 127 sites recommended by experts and stakeholders in the government’s own […]
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Following Marinet’s letter of 5th April 2014 to the House of Commons Environmental Audit Committee in which Marinet expressed concern that the Committee had failed to ask pertinent questions of the Minister about the Government’s shortcomings over the delivery of Marine Conservation Zones (MCZsMCZ Marine Conservation Zone), the Committee has replied on 22nd April asking […]
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Dr. Peter Jones, University College London, has just published a new work titled “Governing Marine Protected Areas : resilience through diversity”. To view this work, click here. In this work Peter Jones addresses some of the important challenges related to the effective and equitable governance of marine protected areas (MPAs). These challenges are explored through […]
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On 2nd April 2014 the Environmental Audit Committee of the House of Commons held a session at which it questioned the Defra Minister, George Eustice MP, and the Ministry’s scientific advisor, Sir Ian Boyd, about the delivery of Marine Conservations Zones (MCZsMCZ Marine Conservation Zone). Marinet attended this public hearing, and concluded that the Minister […]
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Those of you who have visited the National Trusts Blakeney National Nature Reserve on the North Norfolk coast will realise how precious it is (or perhaps now ‘was’) as a wildlife and faunalfauna The animals characteristic of a region, period, or special environment habitat. Sadly the severe North Sea tidal surge of Thursday 5th December […]
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The Oslo Paris Commission for the Protection of the NE Atlantic (OSPAROSPAR Convention for the Protection of the Marine Environment of the North-East Atlantic made up of representatives of the Governments of the 15 signatory nations.) has announced, 19th December 2013, increased protection for species and habitats in the North East Atlantic. Their press release […]
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The Community of Arran Seabed Trust (COAST) reports, December 2013: “COAST’s Treasurer Sibbie Sangster and Manager Andrew Binnie visited Holyrood last month to deliver hand-written Marine Protected Area responses to the Scottish Government. Andrew said, ‘We are delighted with the response. There has been a huge turn out in favour of the Arran MPA. We […]
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Defra announced in a Press Release, 21st November 2013: “Coral reefs, jellyfish and seahorses are just some of the marine life that will be better protected following the creation of 27 new Marine Conservation Zones today. “The UK has one of the world’s richest marine environments and these new sites will join over 500 marine […]
