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Marine Protected Areas update: What are they? A cartoon guide & the Government’s response to the Environment Audit Committee MPA report

Explaining MPAs A different and refreshing approach to explaining MPAs – thanks to Keith Hiscock for passing this on http://grist.org/living/everything-you-ever-wanted-to-know-about-marine-protected-areas/ The Government Response to Environmental Audit Committee Report The Report, Marine protected areas: Government response to the Committee’s First Report of Session 2014-15 has been published as the Committee’s Sixth Special Report, HC 651. It provides a […]

Understanding People and Environment – Governing Marine Protected Areas – A Review

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Governing Marine Protected Areas – Resilience through Diversity By Peter J.S. Jones Earthscan from Routledge This book does the rare thing of putting the social into the socio-ecology of protected areas and provides valuable insights into natural resource management in general. You only need to look at the glowing cover endorsements from the likes of […]

Scottish Marine Protected Areas – 30 designations confirmed for Scotland

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Scotland’s iconic marine species and habitats will be better protected following the designation of 30 Marine Protected Areas. Scottish Government ‘Sites will protect a range of habitats and species including flameshell beds, feather stars, the common skate and ocean quahog, a large mollusc which can live for centuries. They will also protect sandeels – a […]

Marine Protected Areas – Environment Audit Committee Report

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MPs have cast doubt on the Government’s commitment to protect sea life in Marine Conservation Zones (MCZ) after less than a quarter of the recommended sites were designated and inadequate enforcement provisions put in place. Report: Marine Protected Areas Report: Marine Protected Areas (PDF) Inquiry: Marine Protected Areas Environmental Audit Committee Committee Chair Chair […]

England’s marine conservation network is worse than useless – Callum Roberts

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Callum Roberts ‘ 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 – legislation that was heralded as the saviour of UK seas – this is the sum […]

Understanding and Communicating Ecological Coherence and MPAs – NGO’s commission research

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Joan Edwards Blog ‘Whilst ‘ecological coherence’ is a term that appears throughout various legislation and policy documents, and trips off the tongue of many working in the field of marine policy, we must ask ourselves what we actually mean by this? To put it in context, it is used in reference to how we wish […]

Marine Reserves – Landmark Paper – Bill Ballantine – 50 years of experience

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Ballantine 50 years on RE: This is a landmark paper – the antidote to Defra think on MCZ’s – it illustrates, based on 50 years of work on real – fully protected – marine reserves what we could expect if we ever applied such thinking here … pigs might fly… Bill Ballantine: New Zealand pioneered […]

Welsh Government Report on MPAs – a very strange document

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Welsh Government Report on MPAs ‘This document provides the Welsh Government’s Report to the National Assembly for Wales on the Marine Protected Areas network, in response to recommendation 10 of the Environment and Sustainability Committee’s Marine Inquiry. Recommendation 10: By the 31 December 2013, the Welsh Government should voluntarily lay before the Assembly a report […]