Sylvaine Giakoumi, Katie Hogg, Manfredi Di Lorenzo, Nicolas Compain, Claudia Scianna, Giacomo Milisenda, Joachim Claudet, Dimitrios Damalas, Pierluigi Carbonara, Francesco Colloca, Athanasios Evangelopoulos, Igor Isajlović, Dimitrios Karampetsis, Alessandro Ligas, Bojan Marčeta, Magda Nenciu, Victor Nita, Marina Panayotova, Rosaria Sabatella, Paolo Sartor, Vasiliki Sgardeli, Ioannis Thasitis, Valentina Todorova, Nedo Vrgoč, Danilo Scannella, Sergio Vitale, Antonio Di Franco
Worldwide, states are gazetting new Marine Protected Areas (MPAs) to meet the international commitment of protecting 30% of the seas by 2030. Yet, protection benefits only come into effect when an MPA is implemented with activated regulations and actively managed through continuous monitoring and adaptive management. To assess if actively managed MPAs are the rule or the exception, we used the Mediterranean and Black Seas as a case study, and retrieved information on monitoring activities for 878 designated MPAs in ten European Union (EU) countries...
March 4, 2024: Journal of Environmental Management