Projects
Marine Protected Areas: Strengthening Management Effectiveness and Supporting Coastal Community Resilience
Operational Plan 2015 - 2016
From the Canadian Arctic to the southern tip of Mexico, North America is home to an extensive network of Marine Protected Areas. This video sheds light on the vital role MPAs play in sustaining communities, providing recreational experiences, serving as living laboratories, and in conserving important species and their habitats.
This document guides MPA practitioners through a basic climate adaptation planning process.
NAMPAN is a network of experts from Canada, Mexico, and the United States working to improve marine conservation at the seascape level.
The North American Blue Carbon map shows the distribution of salt marsh, mangrove, and seagrass habitats in North America.
This toolkit was created to make climate adaptation planning simple and feasible for marine protected area managers.
MPAs not only help us protect marine life, they also give people an opportunity to connect to nature, serve as living laboratories for scientists working to understand the marine environment, and provide sustainable livelihoods to local communities.
An introduction to the diverse benefits of marine protected areas and the importance of international cooperation to protect North America's shared oceans.
This short film illustrates how North America's marine protected areas support an incredible variety of marine life and help restore fisheries.
Marine protected areas are living laboratories for scientists to learn about our oceans, so we can all make better decisions about their and our future.
Marine protected areas help sustain North America’s economy and its coastal communities.
Marine protected areas offer beautiful and unique places to explore and enjoy the natural world.
This guide is an introduction to the use of marine ecological scorecards and condition reports, which are tools for assessing the condition of marine protected...
A book that celebrates the richness and wealth of our region’s common ocean and coastal...
Operational Plan 2015 - 2016
