The initiative coordinators have compiled some Web sites that contain information relating to MPA management effectiveness as well as general information about marine protected areas. Follow the links below to learn more.

Project Partner Sites
MPA Related Sites

Project Partner Sites

The David and Lucille Packard Foundation
http://www.packard.org/
The Foundation provides grants to nonprofit organizations in the following program areas: Conservation; Population; Science; Children, Families, and Communities; Arts; and Organizational Effectiveness and Philanthropy. The Foundation provides national and international grants.

NOAA- National Ocean Service
http://www.nos.noaa.gov/
This Web site provides information on the work of the different program offices at the National Ocean Service.

World Commission on Protected Areas (WCPA)
http://iucn.org/themes/wcpa/index.html
Official Web site of the WCPA with links to institutional information, thematic areas, and priority regions and biomes.

WCPA- Management Effectiveness Taskforce
http://www.nrsm.uq.edu.au/wcpa/metf/
This Web page provides information about the task force and its activities. The Task Force's primary mission is to improve the selection and management of protected areas by providing managers, planners and other decision makers with methods for assessing the effectiveness of protected area management.

WWF- Endangered Seas Programme
http://www.panda.org/endangeredseas/
This Web site provides information on the different work areas of the WWF-ESP, such as protected areas, sustainable fisheries, partnerships, policy and events.

WWF- Marine Protected Area Priorities
http://www.panda.org/resources/publications/water/
mpa/priorities.html
Information on the activities of the WWF relating to MPAs.

MPA-related Sites

World Parks Congress 2003
http://iucn.org/themes/wcpa/wpc2003/
The World Park Congress meets every ten years as the major global forum for protected areas. It offers a unique opportunity to take stock of protected areas; provide an honest appraisal of progress and setbacks; and chart the course for protected areas over the next decade and beyond. The Vth World Parks Congress will be held in Durban, South Africa, September 8-17, 2003.

International Coral Reef Action Network - ICRAN
http://www.icran.org/
ICRAN is a joint initiative by several partners of the International Coral Reef Initiative (ICRI) designed to reverse the decline in health of the world's coral reefs. It includes inter-linked, highly complementary activities to spread good practices in coral reef management and conservation.

Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC) UNESCO- Ocean Portal
http://ioc.unesco.org/oceanportal/
Ocean Portal is a high-level directory of Ocean Data and Information related Web sites. This site is hosted by the Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission, UNESCO.

Marine Protected Area Corner - Caribbean Environment Programme (UNEP)
http://www.cep.unep.org/pubs/cepnews/v17n1/
mpa%20corner.htm
Information on MPAs provided by CEP for the Wider Caribbean Region.

Marine Protected Areas of Canada

http://www.ncr.dfo.ca/oceanscanada/newenglish/
htmdocs/mpas/mpa.htm

This Web site provides information of Canada's MPA national interests, national policies, official documentation, and contacts.

Marine Protected Areas of Italy (Aree Marine Protette)
http://www.minambiente.it/Sito/settori_azione/sdm/
amp/amp_menu.asp

(In Italian only) This is a Web site of the Italy's Ministry of Environment and Protection of the Territory. It provides legal information, status, and cartography of MPAs in Italy.

Marine Protected Areas News (MPA News) - University of Washington
http://depts.washington.edu/mpanews/
MPA News is a newsletter on planning and management of marine protected areas. MPA News serves the global MPA community with news, views, analysis, and tips gathered from experts around the world. The newsletter and this Web site are published by Marine Affairs Research and Education (MARE), not-for-profit corporation, in association with the University of Washington School of Marine Affairs, Seattle, Washington.

Marine Protected Areas of the United States
http://mpa.gov/
This Web site provides information on marine protected areas as required by U.S. Executive Order 13158. This site, managed jointly by the Departments of Commerce and the Interior, will report on the collective progress in implementing the Executive Order.

UNEP World Conservation Monitoring Centre
http://www.unep-wcmc.org/
The Web site provides information for policy and action to conserve the living world. The areas of interest concentrate on species, forests, protected areas, marine, mountains and freshwaters; plus habitats affected by climate change such as polar regions.


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