Six marine protected areas showed how it\u2019s done<\/p>\n
Barely a week goes by without another new marine protected area being announced; last week it was Sao Tome and Principe<\/a>, the week before it was French Polynesia<\/a>. It\u2019s good news, but drawing lines on a map is one thing, implementing effective conservation is another.\u00a0<\/p>\n Enter the Blue Park Awards. Recognising marine protected areas (MPAs) that set a benchmark for ocean conservation, the prize revealed its latest winners this week. They were: Banc-des-Am\u00e9ricains, Canada; KAWAWANA Indigenous community heritage area, Senegal; Nosy Hara national park, Madagascar; Nosy Tanihely national park, Madagascar; Sahamalaza-\u00eeles Radama national park, Madagascar; and Rapa Nui marine protected area, Chile.\u00a0<\/p>\n Selected by conservation experts convened by the US-based Marine Conservation Institute, the winners were benchmarked against \u201ca rigorous, science-driven framework\u201d to evaluate their effectiveness.\u00a0<\/p>\n Together, the six parks encompass approximately 455,000 sq miles of ocean, bringing the total Blue Park network to more than 2.6m sq miles of effectively protected ocean across 30 countries and Indigenous territories.<\/p>\n \u201cThese six MPAs show that effective marine protection is achievable across cultures, geographies, and political systems,\u201d said Dr Lance Morgan, president of Marine Conservation Institute. \u201cWe hope they inspire ocean champions everywhere to raise their ambitions for what protection can and should look like.\u201d<\/p>\n Image: mirecca<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Six marine protected areas showed how it\u2019s done Barely a week goes by without another new marine protected…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1052642,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[11],"tags":[59063,1305,21356,105,22468,16,15],"class_list":["post-1052641","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-health","tag-beavers","tag-electric-vehicles","tag-good-news","tag-health","tag-smoking","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/116819861381544301","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1052641","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1052641"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1052641\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1052642"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1052641"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1052641"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1052641"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}