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If you're in Brussels next week, come talk about MPAs

May 6, 2008

Posted by Kate Wing in Reviving the World's Oceans

Tags:
acronyms, california, CBD, EU, marine reserve, MPA, TPAGE

If you happen to be in Europe next week, why not stop by Brussels on May 16th and participate in a conversation between folks in the EU and the US working on marine protected areas, aka MPAs. It's not that...continued

The last one standing

April 23, 2008

Posted by Kate Wing in Reviving the World's Oceans

Tags:
california, civil society, marine reserve, MLPA, MPA, nudibranch

It started raining in San Rafael around 5:30 pm last night, right around rush hour, and the 250 people who'd shown up to talk about marine protected areas were getting antsy. They'd been there since 9 am, wearing shirts and...continued

Three cheers for Kiribati

February 14, 2008

Posted by Kate Wing in Reviving the World's Oceans

Tags:
coral, Kiribati, MPA, turtles

 Polish up your dive kit and book a flight to Kiribati, which just created the world's largest marine protected area. This expands the large area designated in the Phoenix Islands in 2006. At more than 164,000 square miles it's...continued

MPAs make a difference

February 11, 2008

Posted by Kate Wing in Reviving the World's Oceans

Tags:
california, Channel Islands, DFG, monitoring, MPA, Santa Barbara

Last Friday, the public got the first look at the results of five years of monitoring at California's Channel Islands and those data are fascinating. Considering the decades-long lifespans of many of our west coast rockfish, it was unclear how...continued

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Kate Wing was a senior ocean-policy analyst at NRDC between 2000 and 2008. She's now joined...
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