While pursuing her PhD studies with Sea Around Us, Veronica Relano-Ecija, engaged in an artistic project to raise awareness about climate change and sea-level rise.
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Paper Park Index helps identify 49 unprotected marine protected areas
Los Roques National Park in Venezuela. Photo by …your local connection, Flickr.
A new Paper Park Index (PPI) developed by researchers at the University of British Columbia’s Sea Around Us initiative helped identify 49 marine protected areas (MPAs) across the world where enough fishing takes place to contravene the protection status officially assigned to such sites.
Sea Around Us PhD candidate going to COP27
Veronica Relano.
The Sea Around Us PhD candidate Veronica Relano is among the 10 members of the University of British Columbia’s delegation travelling to Egypt to attend the 27th United Nations Climate Change Conference of the Parties (COP27).
Local stakeholder involvement key to understanding protection level of MPAs
Knowledge provided by local stakeholders such as non-governmental organizations, academics, civil servants, journalists, and fishers can be valuable for evaluating the effectiveness of countries’ marine protected areas (MPAs).
New research pinpoints ‘blue corridors’ for highly migratory fish
New research has pinpointed four high-traffic areas in the Pacific Ocean that should be considered of high priority if conservation efforts focused on large pelagic fishes such as tuna, blue marlin and swordfish are to be successful.