Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The coral reefs of Palmyra Atoll, part of Pacific Islands Heritage Marine National Monument, provide nurseries for many fish ...

California established a network of marine protected areas. MPAs cover roughly 16% of California’s state waters. A long, reddish and black sheephead wove through a maze of towering kelp in a marine ...

Sacred sites are almost certainly the oldest forms of “protected areas” and there are still thought to be hundreds of thousands of them around the world contributing to global efforts to conserve ...

Mulligan is a native San Diegan and is the ocean conservation coordinator for Wildcoast and lives in San Diego. Growing up in sun-kissed San Diego, I spent most of my weekends in La Jolla, desperate ...

A new study reveals that protected areas in Southeast Asia not only boost bird and mammal diversity within their confines, but they also elevate numbers of species in nearby unprotected habitats. The ...

The concept of protecting marine areas from fishing and other human activities is not new. In the nonmarket economies of island nations in Oceania (Polynesia, Melanesia, and Micronesia), measures to ...