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Saving Congo’s sea turtles: progress made but dangers ahead

William Clowes 1 May 2017

Damage to Raja Ampat 12 times higher than previously thought

Basten Gokkon 25 Mar 2017

Marine protected areas suffer from lack of funds, staff

Shreya Dasgupta 22 Mar 2017

Cruise ship wrecks one of Indonesia’s best coral reefs at Raja Ampat

Basten Gokkon 9 Mar 2017

Law enforcers recover 38 sea turtles in eastern Indonesia — 6 of them dead

Mongabay 1 Mar 2017

Ecological trap ensnares endangered African penguins

John Cannon 10 Feb 2017

Protecting Marine Protected Areas

Elizabeth Devitt 1 Feb 2017

2016’s top 10 developments for the world’s oceans

Caroline Jablonicky, Douglas McCauley 28 Dec 2016

Top 10 HAPPY environmental stories of 2016

Shreya Dasgupta 28 Dec 2016

Expedition finds serious damage to Southeast Sulawesi’s marine ecosystem

Dyna Rochmyaningsih 8 Dec 2016

Mexico to get its largest ever protected area

Shreya Dasgupta 5 Dec 2016

A data trove to support a hoped-for shark sanctuary in Indonesia

Marge Segre 18 Nov 2016

World’s largest marine protected area created in Antarctica

Shreya Dasgupta 31 Oct 2016

Belize suspends oil exploration near World Heritage Site after public outcry

Shreya Dasgupta 24 Oct 2016

New tool lets anyone find out if deep sea mining is happening in their ocean backyard

Mike Gaworecki 13 Oct 2016

NOAA proposes rule to protect deep sea coral off U.S. Atlantic coast

Mike Gaworecki 3 Oct 2016

Indonesia exploring new model to fund national parks

Fidelis E. Satriastanti 30 Sep 2016

Chile creates largest marine park in Southeast Pacific

Joaquín Ortiz 29 Sep 2016

Obama creates Atlantic Ocean’s first marine national monument

Shreya Dasgupta 19 Sep 2016

$48 million fund to help expand marine protected areas

Shreya Dasgupta 16 Sep 2016

High seas treaty negotiations ended at UN last week with boost from IUCN Conservation Congress

Mike Gaworecki 14 Sep 2016

US creates world’s largest marine reserve off Hawaii

Shreya Dasgupta 29 Aug 2016

Putting the ‘evidence’ in evidence-based forest conservation

Mike Gaworecki 12 Jul 2016

Cambodia declares first-ever marine protected area

Mike Gaworecki 24 Jun 2016
A still of juvenile blacktip reef sharks (Carcharhinus melanopterus) from the baited Go-Pro rig that researchers set in the waters of the Daram no-take zone in West Papua, Indonesia. Photo by Vanessa Jaiteh.

Protected areas grow populations of shark — and disenfranchised fishers

Melati Kaye 15 Jun 2016

Malaysia gets its largest marine park

Shreya Dasgupta 13 Jun 2016

Photos: the people of Indonesia’s marine protected areas

Mongabay 2 Jun 2016

Indigenous territories occupy 40 percent of protected land and marine areas in Central America

Mike Gaworecki 20 May 2016

Half of World Heritage Sites threatened by ‘harmful industrial activities’, new report finds

Shreya Dasgupta 11 Apr 2016

First round of UN negotiations to regulate high seas fishing concludes

Alexandra Ossola 8 Apr 2016

Scientists say we need to be far more ambitious about protecting oceans

Mike Gaworecki 8 Apr 2016

Global coral bleaching event hits Australia’s Great Barrier Reef hard

Mic Smith 1 Apr 2016

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