Tag: marine protected areas

Culture

Turtles

In travels from Kiribati to Baja to the Great Salt Lake, Ben Cromwell reflects upon the sacred and the abused, destruction and birth, and how transcending our nature requires that we step into the unknown.

Ecosystems, Oceans

Sage Briefs: Wrong Place, Wrong Clime–Will Marine Sanctuaries Falter as Temperatures Rise?

he golden promise of marine protected areas – ocean swaths set aside for the management of natural and cultural marine resources – may prove empty by mid-century. As global climate warms, so does ocean temperature, forcing species habitats pole-ward. Marine protected areas (MPAs) don’t tail along. Though the United States manages a network of more than 1,600 MPAs, climate change, […]

Nebulous

Fishing Report From Ibo Island

Ibo Island off the coast of Mozambique hosts a large network of subsistence fishing villages. Rich Press, photojournalist, documents this way-of-life, currently threatened by industrial fishing operations and a changing climate.