World Ocean Day
It’s #MapMonday! To celebrate World Ocean Day this week, the Commission for Environmental Cooperation is highlighting the North American Marine Protected Areas Network (NAMPAN) Story Map. This interactive Story Map helps us better understand that networks of Marine Protected Areas (MPAs) like NAMPAN are vital for the conservation of ecosystems, biodiversity, coastal and Indigenous community […]
Protected Areas
It’s #MapMonday! Did you know that Protected Areas are a key focus of the Convention on Biological Diversity UN Biodiversity and a priority agenda item for the upcoming #COP15 Conference of the Parties? Healthy ecosystems and biodiversity are crucial to protect as they provide many ecosystem services such as pollination for food production, prevention of erosion in coastal […]
North American Protected Areas, 2021
The new map of North American Protected Areas is an update of the map published in 2017 by the Commission for Environmental Cooperation. This new map integrates the most recent databases available as of August 2021 in Canada, the United States and Mexico. As defined by the International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN), […]
North American Blue Carbon, 2021
The North American Blue Carbon map shows the distribution of salt marsh, mangrove, and seagrass habitats in North America. Data were compiled from approximately 50 source datasets, including international (UNEP-WCMC), national (Conabio, US Geological Survey and the US National Wetlands Inventory), as well as state and provincial sources and information from individual investigators. This 2021 […]
MPA Ecological Scorecards Sites
To assess the environmental conditions of marine protected areas (MPAs), experts developed an Ecological Assessment Scorecard methodology, which distills large amounts of complex technical and traditional/local ecological knowledge about MPA conditions. These scorecards are an easy yet powerful tool for MPA managers to share evidence-based ecological information about water, habitat and living resources. The first […]