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Super‐sized MPAs and the marginalization of species conservation

Super‐sized MPAs and the marginalization of species conservation MARINE CONSERVATION IS OFTEN MODELLED ON TERRESTRIAL CONSERVATION Marine species conservation died prematurely early in the new millennium before it had a chance to grow and flourish. The revolution happened; the world turned and moved on to managing higher‐order ecological processes and services. The revolutionary conservation and research agenda of the new millennium has at least four interrelated themes: super‐sized marine protected areas (MPAs; Wood et al ., ; Pala, ), the ecosystem approach to fisheries management (ICES, ), ecosystem services and the economic valuation of nature and the poverty alleviation paradigm (Millennium Ecosystem Assessment, ; Sachs et al ., ; Roe, ), plus the outlying game‐changer of climate change (Hoegh‐Guldberg and Bruno, ). These themes all involve higher‐level aggregate attributes and values of biodiversity. Here, I pick one issue, MPAs, as a synecdoche – the part that may reflect the whole – of how conserving aggregate ecological attributes may dilute effective conservation. Traditionally, marine conservation has followed the terrestrial template of population‐ and species‐specific interventions by local government, in many cases prompted by the efforts of non‐governmental organizations. Those species closest to extinction have been painstakingly nursed back to viability one newborn at a time in zoo‐based http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Aquatic Conservation: Marine and Freshwater Ecosystems Wiley

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Copyright © 2013 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
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1052-7613
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10.1002/aqc.2358
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MARINE CONSERVATION IS OFTEN MODELLED ON TERRESTRIAL CONSERVATION Marine species conservation died prematurely early in the new millennium before it had a chance to grow and flourish. The revolution happened; the world turned and moved on to managing higher‐order ecological processes and services. The revolutionary conservation and research agenda of the new millennium has at least four interrelated themes: super‐sized marine protected areas (MPAs; Wood et al ., ; Pala, ), the ecosystem approach to fisheries management (ICES, ), ecosystem services and the economic valuation of nature and the poverty alleviation paradigm (Millennium Ecosystem Assessment, ; Sachs et al ., ; Roe, ), plus the outlying game‐changer of climate change (Hoegh‐Guldberg and Bruno, ). These themes all involve higher‐level aggregate attributes and values of biodiversity. Here, I pick one issue, MPAs, as a synecdoche – the part that may reflect the whole – of how conserving aggregate ecological attributes may dilute effective conservation. Traditionally, marine conservation has followed the terrestrial template of population‐ and species‐specific interventions by local government, in many cases prompted by the efforts of non‐governmental organizations. Those species closest to extinction have been painstakingly nursed back to viability one newborn at a time in zoo‐based

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Aquatic Conservation: Marine and Freshwater Ecosystems – Wiley

Published: Jun 1, 2013

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