South Africa currently has a network of 23 Marine Protected Areas (MPAs) covering only 0.4 % of the oceans around South Africa. This is far short of the global target of at least 10% protection of the oceans by 2020 - to which South Africa...
CITIZENS SAY NO TO OIL AND GAS DRILLING 'Not off our coast' Lyse Comins KwaZulu-Natal residents and environmental groups united in vehement opposition against plans to explore and drill for oil and gas off the province's coast, highlighting devastating environmental disasters during oil and gas operations...
DEA fails to protect oceans the commitment to expand SA's network of marine protected areas is in murky water write Mervyn Naidoo and Fred Kockott THE Department of Environmental Affairs has made a big song and dance about how it intends to comply with international...
Eight years ago, the BP Deepwater Horizon oil rig in the Gulf of Mexico exploded, killing 11 people, pouring 5 million barrels of oil into the ocean and contaminating over 1,700 kilometres of America’s coastal wetlands and beaches. It was one of the worst environmental...
To conserve the world’s oceans, we must go beyond science, and use it to inform policy and management, and ultimately to catalyse change. The Society for Conservation Biology's International Marine Conservation Congress (IMCC) brings together conservation professionals and students to develop new and powerful tools...
On the 20th of March 2018, Brazil announced the designation of four new marine protected areas (MPAs) around the Trindade-Martin Vaz and the São Pedro and São Paulo Archipelagos, two regions in the South Atlantic. The four new MPAs cover an area of more than 900,000...
A celebratory World Oceans Day event, hosted by WILDOCEANS and the South African Institute of International Affairs (SAIIA), was held at uShaka Marine Worlds’ Aquarium on the evening of the 8th of June. The event, which featured a key note address from the Department of...
South Africa’s Marine Protected Area (MPA) footprint is currently sitting at 0.4% compared to a global average of 11%. “0.4% is simply not enough, and so we’re excited about the announcement of 5% expansion of our marine protected areas, following the commitments made by the...
South Africa's Marine Protected Area (MPA) footprint is currently sitting at 0.4% compared to a global average of 11%. "0.4% is simply not enough, and so we’re excited about the announcement of 5% expansion of our marine protected areas, following the commitments made by the...
A global ocean protection group has expressed concern that plans to fast-track the expansion of Marine Protected Areas off the South African coast appear to have stalled. Plans to enlarge South Africa’s protected ocean reserve network have come to a halt, allegedly due to pressure from...