MPAs

  On 27 October, 2014, the Government of Bangladesh signed into law the country’s first Marine Protected Area, the ‘Swatch of No Ground’ (SoNG), designed to safeguard whales, dolphins, sea turtles, sharks, and other oceanic species. The SoNG MPA spans 1,738 km2 including waters at the...

By Francisco Viddi and Rodrigo Hucke-Gaete The Chilean government has recently approved the declaration of the Tic Toc Marine Park, located on Chile’s southern coast, off the Northern Patagonian Fjords. This marine park, in the waters of Corcovado Gulf, will protect of one of the most...

By Erich Hoyt and Giuseppe Notarbartolo di Sciara 25 October 2013 The creation of the IUCN Joint SSC/WCPA Marine Mammal Protected Area Task Force (MMPATF) was formally announced on 24 October 2013 by Dan Laffoley, World Commission on Protected Areas (WCPA), Giuseppe Notarbartolo di Sciara on behalf...