Don’t stick to protected areas Andrey Nekrasov/imageBROKER/REX/Shutterstock
Conservationists are still arguing about exactly how much of the world’s oceans should be protected to ensure marine life does well.
The UN Convention on Biological Diversity by 2020. And at the International Union for Conservation of Nature’s World Conservation Congress last year, a headline-grabbing target of 30 per cent by 2030 was endorsed.
But such targets may miss the point. Are our existing marine protected areas (MPAs) doing a good job of conserving the biodiversity they were designed to safeguard? Are they always in…
