Proceedings of the Workshop on Networking of Marine Protected Areas: Benefits, Good Practices, Standards and Next Steps

PUBLICATION DATE:

Sunday, November 01, 2009

PUBLICATION TYPE:

Meeting Documents

STATUS:

Only Available Online

DESCRIPTION:

This publication summarizes the results of one of the workshops held during the East Asian Seas Congress 2009 on Networking of Marine Protected Areas: Benefits, Good Practices, Standards and Next Steps. The Workshop on Networking of Marine Protected Areas: Benefits, Good Practices, Standards and Next Steps was one of the events within the theme on Habitat Protection, Restoration and Management. The workshop was co-convened by the ASEAN Centre for Biodiversity (ACB), the Philippines’ Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR), the Secretariat of the Ramsar Convention, and PEMSEA. In view of the many initiatives to network MPAs in the region, the workshop discussed options for cooperation among various initiatives, strategies, action plans, and working partnerships in MPA networking that have been developed or are being developed in the region, for example the ASEAN Marine Protected Area and Heritage Park initiatives, the International Coral Reef Initiative (ICRI), the Coral Triangle Initiative (CTI), and the South China Sea Fisheries Refugia Initiative. Government personnel from Indonesia, the Philippines, the People’s Republic of China, and Viet Nam, as well as from the ASEAN, CTI, ICRI, the International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN), the MPA Learning Partnership, and the Southeast Asian Fisheries Development Center (SEAFDEC), among others, participated in the workshop.