News tagged with marine reserves

Hidden Baja undersea park is the world's most robust marine reserve

A thriving undersea wildlife park tucked away near the southern tip of Mexico's Baja peninsula has proven to be the world's most robust marine reserve in the world, according to a new study led by researchers ...

Biology / Ecology

created Aug 12, 2011 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (7) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Study shows drifting fish larvae allow marine reserves to rebuild fisheries

Marine ecologists at Oregon State University have shown for the first time that tiny fish larvae can drift with ocean currents and "re-seed" fish stocks significant distances away – more than 100 miles ...

Biology / Ecology

created Dec 22, 2010 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (5) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Cutting fishing could buy time for coral reefs

Stopping people fishing around Caribbean coral reefs by designating them legally protected marine reserves could help some of them survive the effects of a changing climate by more than 50 years.

Space & Earth / Environment

created Jun 29, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 3 | with audio podcast

DNA evidence shows that marine reserves help to sustain fisheries

Researchers reporting online on May 24 in the Cell Press journal Current Biology present the first evidence that areas closed to all fishing are helping to sustain valuable Australian fisheries. The intern ...

Biology / Ecology

created May 24, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Marine reserves mend food chains, link by link

(PhysOrg.com) -- Conservation managers need to take a long-term view when assessing the value of marine protected areas, according to a paper in today’s Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the ...

Space & Earth / Environment

created Feb 23, 2010 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Scientists need to be more proactive, effective at public communication: report

Scientists are a valuable and trusted source of information, researchers say in a recent report, but too often do an inadequate job of bringing that information to those who need it in a factual, non-technical, credible and ...

Other Sciences / Other

created May 21, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Data point to some improvements in China's environment

The rapid growth of China's forests over the past 20 years makes them the fastest growing forest resources in the world, according to an assessment published in the November issue of BioScience.

Space & Earth / Environment

created Nov 02, 2009 | popularity 3.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Scientists find community involvement, not only enforcement, drives success of marine reserves

In one of the most comprehensive global studies of marine reserves, a team of natural and social scientists from the University of Rhode Island and other institutions has found that community involvement is among the most ...

Space & Earth / Environment

created Mar 01, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

New study of Glover's Reef challenges whether corals will benefit from Marine Reserves' protection

The ability of marine reserves to replenish fish stocks has been studied extensively, but evidence of their ability to benefit shallow-water communities to thrive remains a mystery. A team of scientists from ...

Space & Earth / Environment

created Oct 04, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Scientists call for no-take coral sea park

More than 300 eminent scientists from 21 other countries around the world today urged the Australian Federal Government to create the world's largest no-take marine reserve in the Coral Sea.

Space & Earth / Environment

created Feb 23, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Conservationists call for huge Antarctic marine reserve

A coalition of environment groups called Tuesday for the world's largest marine reserve to be declared in Antarctica's Ross Sea to prevent "industrial scale" fishing ruining the pristine ecosystem.

Space & Earth / Environment

created Feb 28, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Calm before the spawn: Climate change and coral spawning

What's the point of setting up marine reserves to protect coral reefs from pollution, ship groundings and overfishing if climate change could cause far more damage? A study published this week in London in Proceedings of ...

Space & Earth / Environment

created Nov 04, 2009 | popularity 1 / 5 (4) | comments 2

Overfishing leaves swaths of Mediterranean barren

Centuries of overexploitation of fish and other marine resources — as well as invasion of fish from the Red Sea — have turned some formerly healthy ecosystems of the Mediterranean Sea into barren places, an unprecedented ...

Biology / Ecology

created Mar 01, 2012 | popularity 3 / 5 (1) | comments 1