Tag: Marine Protected Area (MPA)

• Tuesday, February 27th 2024 - 14:20 UTC

  South Georgia expands by 36%, –166.000km2– area closed to fishing activities in its Southern Ocean MPA

  

  The Commissioner for South Georgia & the South Sandwich Islands (SGSSI) has announced plans to extend the spatial extent of No Take Zones in the SGSSI Marine Protected Area (MPA), increasing their area from 283,000km2 to 449,000km2.

• Friday, June 30th 2023 - 07:52 UTC

  Scotland suspends plans to create Protected Marine Areas in 10% of its waters

  

  Under strong pressure from the fishing industry and some island communities, the Scottish government has scrapped plans to create Highly Protected Marine Areas in 10% of Scotland's seas. The proposals would have restricted fishing and other human activities in some coastal areas, in a bid to protect the environment.

• Saturday, October 9th 2021 - 04:12 UTC

  Tierra del Fuego extreme south vertex to become the Mitre Peninsula Protected Area

  

  Argentina Tierra del Fuego province lawmakers from all parties have agreed to resurface a project to create the Mitre Peninsula Nature Protected Area, an idea born over thirty years ago and which covers the extreme end landmass of Tierra del Fuego and the States Island.

• Wednesday, September 15th 2021 - 21:22 UTC

  New Research and Monitoring Plan for South Georgia & South Sandwich Islands Marine Protected Area

  

  A new Research and Monitoring Plan is being launched today to help support the management of South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands and Marine Protection Area, MPA, points out the SGSSI Newsletter.

• Tuesday, August 3rd 2021 - 06:32 UTC

  Blue Belt Program launches Training Platform for UK Overseas Territories

  

  The Blue Belt Program has launched a comprehensive online training platform for the UK Overseas Territories. This will provide training and development of skills across a wide range of marine management themes, free of charge.

• Saturday, December 19th 2020 - 10:00 UTC

  UK leads Global Ocean Alliance to turn 30% of oceans into Marine Protected Areas by 2030

  

  Some thirty countries have now joined the Global Ocean Alliance championing an international commitment for a minimum 30% of the global ocean to be protected through Marine Protected Areas by 2030.

• Saturday, October 31st 2020 - 08:42 UTC

  Expanding marine protected areas by 5% could boost fish yields by 20% – but there’s a catch

  

  By Peter JS Jones and Rick Stafford - Marine protected areas, or MPAs as they’re more commonly called, are very simple. Areas of the sea are set aside where certain activities – usually fishing – are banned or restricted.

• Friday, August 30th 2019 - 09:29 UTC

  Johnson at G7 summit led the way in ocean protection; Ascension island declares 100% of its waters an MPA

  

  During remarks at the close of the recent G7 summit in Biarritz, British Prime Minister Boris Johnson said that the Aichi targets—goals set nearly a decade ago as part of the United Nations’ Strategic Plan for Biodiversity—must be “replaced with new, more ambitious targets to help us get back the biodiversity that this planet is losing, and has lost.”

• Monday, October 30th 2017 - 10:45 UTC

  UK’s work on protecting the oceans has won deserved praise – now we must go further

  

  By Matthew Offord MP for Hendon - UK leadership on ocean conservation has won international acclaim. The landmark “Blue Belt” policy to work with the UK Overseas Territories to “create the largest marine sanctuaries anywhere in the world” has only furthered this standing, with commitments to create large protected areas around Ascension Island and Tristan da Cunha in 2019 and 2020 respectively already widely welcomed.

• Thursday, September 7th 2017 - 07:14 UTC

  UK Overseas Territories have 4 million sq. km. of marine protected areas.

  

  The United Kingdom is showcasing its expertise in marine conservation and protection at the 4th International Congress of Marine Protected Areas in La Serena, Coquimbo, Chile, which extends until next 8 September.