Editor’s Note

From the Global Marine Team

Conservation Strategies

Assessments to Embolden Action

Resilient MPA Networks

Restoring Nearshore Habitats

Acquiring Proprietary Interests

Reducing Impacts from Fishing

Improving Enabling Conditions

Knowledge, Learning Networks & Capacity

Tidepool Postings

Watermarks

Calendar

Groovy Tools

Editor’s Note

In our efforts to accelerate marine conservation through learning and increase cohesion across TNC and building on the success of the Marine Aggregation e-bulletin, we are pleased to share with you, our marine family, the first e-issue of MARINE@TNC. We’ve got the skinny on progress made by the Global Marine Team and others towards advancing cutting edge strategies, and in Tidepool Postings we’ve got all the highlights sent in by field programs (THANKS go to all who responded to our request for submissions). You will also find a list of our recent publications in Watermarks, the 2008-09 marine conference calendar and a complete listing of TNC’s marine communication tools. Watch for MARINE@TNC twice a year (and for the call to contribute); we’ll make sure its chock-full of news and helpful resources every time. Please share it with your colleagues and let us know if you have thoughts on how we can make it an even better breath of fresh, salty air!

Best Fishes,

Nina Hadley

From the Global Marine Team

The Nature Conservancy Global Marine Team

The Conservancy's collective commitment to setting and reaching marine conservation goals as part of the 2015 goal is both heartening and exciting. Almost a year ago, the Marine Habitat Goal Setting Team (MHGST) - a team comprised of representatives from each conservation region and major WO department-- completed their task of assessing threats and recommending high level strategies to abate threats and achieve our conservation goals in the marine environment. The Regional and WO-3 year Goal Implementation Plans and 60/120 Day Strategy Teams further elaborated on place and threat abatement- specific strategies and from these processes, a Conservancy-wide marine agenda has taken shape.

Over the next decade, The Conservancy has made a commitment to "move the needle" on effective conservation in nine priority "platform" geographies distributed across nine ocean realms. The ecosystems included in these extraordinary places range from ice-bound polar seas, to the mega productive estuaries and shelf areas of both the east and west coasts of the United States and Mexico, to South America's Humboldt Current's upwelling system, to the iconic tropical reefs of the Coral Triangle, Pacific Islands and the Greater Caribbean. These "places" will be at the heart of the "blue planet" portion of the upcoming capital campaign. The conservation strategies that will be used to reach those goals--from resilient MPA networks, to the restoring estuarine and nearshore habitats, to acquiring proprietary rights, to promoting Ecosystem-based management-- align remarkably well across the Conservancy.

Concurrent with the selection of place-based marine priorities and conservation strategies, has been the evolution of TNC's global functions. In the newly created Conservation Strategies Division (CSD), the "old" Global Marine Initiative has been re-constituted as a cross-cutting Global Marine Team. What does this change mean? It means that marine conservation remains a central priority for the Conservancy and that the perceived need for and value of a cross-cutting group to provide leadership to, support for and networking among The Conservancy's marine programs remains. And while the details of how the cross-cutting teams will operate are still evolving, basically, the Global Marine Team will continue and strengthen the work of the Global Marine Initiative and External Affairs Marine group, as well as draw in people from other units within CSD and the field, as well as Marketing and Philanthropy and Legal, to achieve objectives. One small detail...externally, we will continue to use our former name – Global Marine Initiative. So from an external viewpoint, our partners will simply see our cross-cutting marine program strengthened; from within The Conservancy, we hope you see a continued and expanded commitment by the Global Marine Team to work with all of you to achieve our shared marine conservation goals.

As part of this process, we are pulling together a summary piece on "Marine Conservation at The Nature Conservancy and the Global Marine Team Objectives." Over the next several months we will be working to fine-tune The Global Marine Team's three-year objectives and further clarify our interactions with each priority marine geography, and between the Marine and other cross-cutting teams. As always, I would welcome your questions, ideas and comments. As ever,



Lynne Hale

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Using Science-based Assessments to Focus and Embolden Action

Ecoregional Planning
The Global Marine Team supported and participated in three primary planning teams this year: The North Atlantic Marine assessment was re-launched, led by the Eastern U.S. Region, and will be an integrated coastal and marine ecoregional assessment. This assessment will include both inshore and offshore ecosystem characterization and elements of ecosystem-based management. The Humboldt Current assessment has completed database development and an initial priority selection of the six ecoregions in Peru and Chile. The Pacific Northwest Coast assessment is an integrated coastal marine, freshwater and terrestrial assessment and was completed and distributed to key stakeholders. An offshore marine component has since been launched, which will include an analysis of fisheries data.

NOAA CSC + TNC
The Global Marine Team and the National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration's Coastal Services Center (NOAA CSC) entered into a collaborative partnership in 2004 to build regional planning innovations and refine database design techniques into the marine ecoregional planning process in the Pacific Northwest. The partnership helped improve methods for identifying priority sites for marine conservation and management by unambiguously accounting for the vital connections between land, rivers, and sea. This collaboration has now expanded to examine other geographies in the U.S. and the development of planning strategies including spatial applications for ecosystem-based management and identifying community resilience indicators. Read the final report on Improving Methods for Regional Marine Conservation Assessments.

Ecosystem-Based Management

The Global Marine Team, with partners, launched Advancing Ecosystem-Based Management: A decision support toolkit for marine managers, to guide use of common tools for regional planning and to illustrate through case studies approaches to advance ecosystem-based management by jointly addressing multiple objectives in conservation, fisheries and coastal hazards. This toolkit provides guidance on some of the tools that help in the assessment of marine ecosystems and the identification of opportunities to enhance their conservation and management. Case studies demonstrate approaches to account for the multiple management objectives of fishery production, coastal hazard mitigation, and biodiversity conservation to advance marine ecosystem-based management. These tools can help us to transparently, flexibly and credibly consider the many objectives and uses of the marine environment.

Mind the Gap
With the Global Protected Area Strategy group (GPAS) and the MACR, we assisted in the production of the Quick Guide for Protected Area Practitioners on Conducting Marine Ecological Gap Assessments. The guide provides readers an overview of the steps involved in conducting a marine ecological gap assessment and of best practices learned to date and includes case studies from around the world. This Quick Guide is one in a series of guides developed to provide support for planning and managing protected area systems. For more information about the series, contact Jamie Ervin.

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Creating and Improving the Performance of Resilient MPA Networks

Ah, the webs we weave...
The web version of the Reef Resilience Toolkit launched (www.reefresilience.org) which made the R2 toolkit accessible to anyone, anywhere with internet service. Coral reef managers will find tools, links to useful resources updates and the latest in reef resilience science. A second wave of updates is in the queue for FY08, including new information and current topics. In the meantime, we encourage everyone to check out the R2 discussion forum and additional resilient MPA resources.

Extra, extra...reef all about it!
The Resilience Practitioners Network was implemented along with a new quarterly newsletter, Reef Resilience Review. We are now regularly communicating with everyone that participated in the regional resilience training workshops as well as R2 Toolkit recipients. If you would like to subscribe to Reef Resilience Review or have documents and/or links you would like to contribute to the web site, please submit them to resilience@tnc.org.

Resilience in the wake of the wave
With our partners at IUCN and CORDIO, we coordinated and led the 5th regional Reef Resilience Workshop in Sri Lanka for South Asia. Nearly 25 participants from countries that were directly affected by the 2005 Indian Ocean tsunami - Maldives, India, Sri Lanka, Indonesia, and Thailand - attended. Workshop presentations and discussions focused on how to apply reef resilience concepts in ongoing field projects in each country in wake of heavy bleaching in Maldives and India in particular.

It sure is pretty, but does it work?
An 88-page report Measuring Conservation Effectiveness in the Marine Environment: A Review of Evaluation Techniques & Recommendations for Moving Forward (2006) written for The Nature Conservancy reviews 25 existing systems for evaluating the effectiveness of marine conservation programs, particularly MPAs. The report describes goals, indicators, data sources, and other characteristics of each evaluation system. It also provides a detailed chart of effectiveness indicators, and an annotated bibliography on the subject of marine conservation effectiveness.

Partner progress
In April, The Nature Conservancy, in collaboration with the World Conservation Union (IUCN), National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority and World Wildlife Fund — Australia released a new report, Establishing Marine Protected Area Networks: Making It Happen (pdf version), that provides decision makers with a framework for building successful marine protected area (MPA) networks. For more information visit the WCPA-Marine web site, contact Scott Smith or read the press release.

Swing your National Partner doh-si-doh
The Conservancy’s National Partnership with NOAA’s Community-based Restoration Program (CRP) has significantly enhanced the capacity of our domestic programs to use habitat restoration as a marine conservation strategy. Since its inception in 2001, TNC and NOAA have jointly funded 72 projects in 18 coastal states to address an array of habitats including salt marsh, beach/dune complex, seagrass beds, coral reefs, bivalve shellfish ecosystems as well as river and floodplain habitats that support migratory fish such as salmon, shad and herring.

This year marked the completion of our first multi-year National Partnership with NOAA's CRP (spanning 2001-2006). Projects funded through a second multi-year National Partnership are well underway, and a third National Partnership was recently approved through 2010. TNC received $800,000 in NOAA funding for the first year of this new Partnership - a 30% increase over 2006 funding levels! This renewal will be our most ambitious multi-year Partnership with NOAA to date, enabling a sharper focus on restoration projects designed to return ecosystem services such as shoreline protection and nutrient removal, and projects that begin to address habitat loss at larger scales.

Awe Shucks…
The Shellfish Restoration Network continued keep practitioners clamoring for more... We pumped out four issues of Shellfish Restoration Clamor (to subscribe email Rob Brumbaugh) along with a continually updated Shellfish Network workspace to house relevant publications, presentations, tools.

photo courtesy of Loren Coen

Shellfish@Risk
The Nature Conservancy, with support from The Kabcenell Foundation, has initiated a global assessment of key bivalve shellfish. This assessment, modeled after a global coral reefs assessment in the 1990s, will synthesize information on the distribution, condition and threats to shellfish that provide critical habitat for other species and valuable ecosystem services such as water filtration and sediment stabilization.

Thus far, a global database of shellfish distribution with over 300,000 records from more than 200 different sources, including extensive records provided by the International Ocean Biogeographic Information System (IOBIS), has been constructed. Next steps involve a condition and threats assessment for key shellfish taxa and populations contained in the global database and an expansion of a partnership so that the database and publications have broad input and outreach. For additional information or to contribute to the ongoing assessment, please contact Mike Beck or Rob Brumbaugh.

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Oregon and Massachusetts make interesting bedfellows
This year marked the completion of a collaborative project with NOAA-Coastal Services Center, Coastal States Organization, Roger Williams University and RI Sea Grant, entitled “Informing the Conservation and Management of Submerged Lands.” This project assessed spatial data, laws and policies and developed illustrative ownership and human use/leasing maps of submerged marine lands in two pilot states - Oregon and Massachusetts – to evaluate marine conservation strategies and if/how private conservation leasing and ownership can complement the existing strategies. The project revealed that private acquisition of privately-owned intertidal areas is possible in both states, while authorization of private conservation activities on state-owned submerged lands is feasible and would be precedent setting.

This project produced a suite of products, including:

• A Marine Land Ownership and Leasing Spatial Database Template that can be used by NOAA, TNC and other organization to continue similar work in all marine coast states, leading to a seamless interstate spatial database and comparable conservation policy assessments.
• A journal publication: E.J. Bryant and K.M. Fletcher. 2006. Exploring a new strategy for marine protection: Private conservation of tidelands in Massachusetts. Ocean and Coastal Law Journal. vol 12(1): 15-42.
• A dedicated ConserveOnline workspace with the full suite of reports.

Rock-a-bye rockfish in the kelp canopy top…

Kelp Bed from marine Photo bank.

On two coastal California kelp beds leased by the Conservancy, we completed the second year of experiments that examine the ecology of kelp forest canopies and the role they play as fish nurseries. Results thus far are pointing to best management practices that may reduce effects of canopy loss and harvesting on the health juvenile rockfish and the function of other kelp forest biodiversity.

Toolin’ around
We have now completed scoping and developed a draft of a web-based leasing and ownership Toolkit. Once completed in late 2007, the toolkit will provide information to environmental organizations to enable them to determine if and how to apply leasing and ownership strategies to achieve their coastal and ocean conservation goals. In the meantime, staff can review the Leasing and Ownership Toolkit scoping site and peruse some of the background information.

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Reducing Impacts from Unsustainable and Destructive Fishing

The Global Marine Team working closely with External Affairs launched a process to design a comprehensive strategy for the Conservancy to address threats to marine biodiversity from over fishing and destructive fishing practices. This is one of the high-level strategies for achieving the Conservancy’s 2015 Goal identified by the Marine Habitat Goal Setting Team and the sustainable harvest 60-day team.

The Fishing Guide: Recommendations for Engaging in U.S. Fisheries and a new intranet resources page for TNC’s U.S. Marine Fisheries Policy have set out key opportunities and resources for how the Conservancy can engage in a full range of fishery management issues. A related review is underway for international fisheries issues which will recommend an international component to the Conservancy’s program and policy activities.

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Improving Enabling Conditions that Support Marine Conservation

The Micronesia Challenge: Cornerstone of a Global Island Partnership
Five governments in the Micronesia Challenge, TNC and partners, have made huge strides over the last year in securing international support and funding for the $18 million needed to implement the first phase of the Micronesia Challenge. The Micronesia Challenge is a commitment by the Chief Executives of the Federated States of Micronesia (FSM), the Republic of the Marshall Islands (RMI), the Republic of Palau, the U.S. Territory of Guam and the U.S. Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands (CNMI) to effectively conserve at least 30% of the near-shore marine resources and 20% of the terrestrial resources across Micronesia by 2020. Submitted by Jeanine Almany.

The Early Action Faction
In 2005, TNC, in support for the implementation of the Convention of Biological Diversity's Program of Work on Protected Areas, announced that it would make available $2 million in Early Action Grants to help countries improve the representation of marine and coastal habitats within their national protected areas systems. During FY07, new grants were approved for the Marshall Islands, Indonesia, the Solomon Islands, Mexico, Costa Rica, Guatemala, the Humboldt Current region (Chile, Peru, Ecuador), and the Eastern Caribbean (Grenada, St. Vincent and the Grenadines).

Partner-rama

• Representatives of the Global Marine Team played an active role in the recent "summit" conference of the marine branch of IUCN's World Commission on Protected Areas (WCPA-Marine). As an outcome of this conference, the Conservancy worked closely with partner organizations WWF, Conservation International, and IUCN to support a full time position to work with the Chair of WCPA-Marine to implement key components of its plan of action, and to catalyze the inputs from our four organizations to WCPA-Marine and a series of important global meetings over the next two years.
  
  
• The marine learning partnership of TNC, WWF, CI and the Wildlife Conservation Society, held a workshop in October 2006 that provided further focus for the learning activities being carried out, and was an opportunity for expert input on the key learning questions as well as to share information with IUCN and WCPA-Marine. Over the next year, the partnership will concentrate activities on the Coral Triangle region. A report of lessons learned about the biological and social aspects of scaling up to MPA networks will be presented at the International Coral Reef Symposium in July 2007.
  
  
• B-I-N-G-O! In our continued to work to develop a shared view of the importance of the ocean, threats to these resources, and opportunities for collective action with the other “Big NGOs,” we have agreed with WWF and CI that we would focus our efforts in the near term on developing collaborative proposals and work plans in the Coral Triangle and Gulf of California. The respective conservation regions will now take the lead in planning and implementing future joint work.
  
  
• TNC nominated Sen. Inouye (Hawaii) for a Coral Reef Task Force award for Outstanding Leadership in Coral Conservation which he received at a reception for the CRTF that we co-hosted with The Ocean Foundation and Coastal States Organization in Spring 2006.
  
  
• International Year of the Reef 2008 (IYOR 2008),a year-long campaign of events and initiatives hosted by governments and NGOs around the world to promote conservation action and strengthening long-term constituencies for coral reef conservation, became a focal point for TNC as a member of the ICRI IYOR 2008 Ad Hoc Committee. Contact Sarah Davidson for more info.

Accelerating Marine Conservation Gains through Knowledge Management, Learning Networks and Building Capacity

• The Marine Habitat Goal Setting Report was completed and accepted by Executive Team and influenced regional implementation plans.
• Marine Aggregation 07 – Three days, 150 marine practitioners and partners, nearly 50 presentations and an exhilarating coastal cabaret! Read the highlight e-bulletin here.
• Building marine capacity: TNC welcomed many new marine staff in FY07:
  • Alan White, Senior MPA Scientist, Global Marine Team
  • Sally Yozell, Regional Marine Coordinator, EUSCR
  • Rowena Garcia, So. FL Marine Conservation Program Manager
  • Mary Austill Lott, Alabama Coastal Program Director
  • Sarah Davidson, Program Coordinator Marine and Freshwater policy and partnerships, XA
  • Julianne Stockbridge, Belize Marine Conservation Program Manager
  • Aurelio Ramos, Columbia
  • Margaret Spring, California Marine Program Director
  • Caroly Shumway, Rhode Island Marine Conservation Scientist
  • Eric Conklin, Emily Fielding, Manuel Mejia, and Kanekoa Kukea-Shultz, Hawaii chapter marine team

• The CONPRO Inventory now has options to search by marine ecoregions. Check it out and add your marine projects today.

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Tide Pool Postings
State and country marine programs are making waves. Kudos to all who contributed!

The Hawaii marine program joined SeaWeb and Malama Hawaii to form a statewide responsible fishing campaign called "Fair Catch: take what you need, not what you can" which led to the successful passage of strong new restrictions on the use of lay gill nets in the Hawaiian Islands, including a complete ban in portions of Oahu and around the entire island of Maui. New Publication: The Living Reef. Submitted by Kim Hum.

The Alaska Bering Sea program, with partners Island Conservation and the Alaska Maritime National Wildlife Refuge completed a successful field season to begin restoring seabird habitat on the Aleutian Islands by testing methods to remove invasive Norway rats. This effort will be the first step in a long-term program to restore seabird habitat on rat-infested islands throughout the Aleutians and is one of the most progressive seabird restoration and conservation programs in the world. Submitted by Sarah Leonard and Steve MacLean.

Over the last two years the Washington Field Office has assisted the San Juan County's Marine Resources Committee - a county appointed work group of citizens and stakeholders - in developing an Ecosystem Based Marine Management Plan based on the the Conservancy's Conservation Action Planning tools. Key components of the management plan were approved by the San Juan County Council this July including recommendations to increase public education on marine fish conservation and county protections of marine shorelines. The plan has already resulted in action by the Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife and Indian Tribes to set up the county's first fully protected Marine Reserve surrounding the Conservancy's Yellow Island Preserve. Submitted by Jacques White.

In June 2006 California marine program made history when it became the nation’s first private organization to purchase Pacific fishing vessels and permits for conservation purposes. The Conservancy’s purchase of six federal trawling permits and four trawling vessels from commercial fishermen is a collaborative effort to protect 3.8 million acres of ocean off the coast of California, allowing fish populations to recover and helping to reform a troubled fishery. Submitted by Erika Feller.

The New Hampshire marine program worked with regional partners to develop the Great Bay Restoration Compendium - a report that provides a restoration blueprint by documenting what has actually been lost and by identifying priority project sites. Submitted by Ray Konisky.

The Massachusetts marine program, working with the Global Marine Team, published two companion reports on private conservation options for submerged (see above section on proprietary rights for more details). The program is now scoping a "proof of concept" project to secure an unprecedented conservation license that would protect restoration investments in state waters, ensuring that the intended ecological impacts of such projects can be realized. Submitted by Rachael Franks-Taylor.

The Connecticut Chapter recently completed a Coastal CAP and is initiating projects involving shellfish, response to climate changes, and marine zoning with a variety of federal, state, and academic organization. The Chapter has officially launched the Long Island Sound Program in partnership with the New York - Long Island and Rhode Island Chapter. Focused cross-boundary planning for the LIS program will continue through the fall of 2007. Submitted by Adam Welchel.

Marine and Coastal staff from Long Island spent much of the past year developing a draft ecosystem-based management plan for the state of New York. Shellfish restoration and monitoring efforts continued in Great South Bay and the Peconic Estuary -- growing over 700,000 scallops in the Peconics (in partnership with the Town of Southampton); reaching our 2 million mark for the number of clams TNC has stocked in Great South Bay; and expanding our network of spawner sanctuaries to nearly 45 sanctuaries. The Long Island chapter was also involved in passing important pieces of state legislation: 1) the creation of a NYS Sea Level Rise Task Force and 2) the creation of the NYS Ocean and Great Lakes Council. Submitted by Kelly Hines.

Two states’ marine restoration projects were showcased in the 'Sightings' section of the Winter 2006 issue of Nature Conservancy magazine, illustrating the multi-faceted role that restoration is playing as a strategy for TNC's coastal programs. Florida’s Reef Resilience program is using a staghorn coral restoration project to evaluate resilience principles and management strategies across the Florida Keys reef tract, and the Chesapeake Bay Initiative is using oyster reef restoration as a strategy for integrating upstream land conservation work in Virginia's Piankatank River watershed with estuary conservation downstream.

The TNC-WWF Marine Joint Program for the Derawan Islands has been working closely with the Fisheries Office of the Berau District in providing technical input into a draft District Regulation on Sustainable Fisheries. After more than a year-long process, the Berau House of Representatives has passed this District Regulation which amongst others covers the management of fisheries and marine ecosystems through the development of MPAs, approaches in developing zoning systems and regulating the use of fishing gears. Submitted by Tri Soekirman.

In the Solomon Islands, the Conservancy’s Arnavon Islands project will be protected in perpetuity as the result of an endowment that will provide permanent funding to manage the marine protected area. Since its inception in 1995, the Arnavons Community Marine Conservation Area (ACMCA) has served as a model for community-based conservation throughout the Pacific. With strong community and government support for the ACMCA and effective day-to-day management and enforcement practices in place, the last challenge for the ACMCA was finding a way to fund its management in perpetuity. Earlier this year an anonymous donor provided the additional funding needed to establish the endowment - making the ACMCA the first sustainably financed marine protected areas in the Pacific. Submitted by Jeanine Almany.

The Pacific Island Countries program recently completed the design for a resilient network of Marine Protected Areas (MPAs) for Kimbe Bay, Papua New Guinea. This network design, which takes into account both biodiversity and human needs, is one of the first on the planet to also address the threats of climate change. With strong community and government support, the Conservancy is now focused on implementing the protected areas identified in the scientific design process. Submitted by Jeanine Almany.

This past year Palau’s Protected Areas Network (PAN) Office, in collaboration with The Nature Conservancy and other stakeholders, completed the national Ecoregional Assessment and GAP analysis, which will assist the states to identify priority areas for designation as protected areas and inclusion in the PAN. PAN regulations, which were a pre-condition for nominating sites to be included in the PAN, were then signed into effect and Lake Ngardok Reserve was nominated as the first PAN site in Palau. Submitted by Jeanine Almany.

In August 2007, the South America marine program will launch the results of an unprecedented, continental-scale marine assessment which, using consistent methodology for national marine assessments in Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru and Venezuela, compiles marine conservation information across the continent to identify the top 10 threats to coastal and marine biodiversity in South America and determines levels of threat and protection. In response, TNC is developing the Humboldt Coast and Current Project, to work collaboratively with the governments of Chile and Peru and other organizations to place almost 10 million more marine acres under protection. Submitted by Cara Goodman.

The Colombia program is working with local partners to formulate the country wide marine gap assessment for both the Caribbean and the Pacific. This effort is led by the Marine Research Institute INVEMAR, as part of the Memorandum of Understanding (NISP Agreement) signed by 12 national and international public and private organizations to strengthen the National System of Protected Areas. As a result, priorities for conservation of important marine habitats have been identified and a proposal for the creation of a new marine protected area in Bahia Portete, in the Colombian Caribbean, is in the works. Submitted by Pilar Barrera.

The Jamaica program received a second US National Fish and Wildlife grant to expand the Pedro Bank Management Project. Major activities last year included: the development of a management plan for the area using CAP; the launching of a project and resource website; and a collaboration with the Jamaica Defense Force and the Fisheries Division to embark on a revolutionary sustainable, green design for a research and training field station (to be constructed in FY08) on the Pedro Cays to withstand harsh elements and hurricanes and ensure a management presence. Submitted by Nathalie Zenny.

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2007 Marine Conference Calendar
August 5-10
Ecological Society of America/Society for Ecological Restoration International Joint Annual Meeting, San Jose, California.

August 20-25
18th US Coral Reef Task Force Meeting, American Samoa

September 5-7
TNC Climate Change Science Conference, Portland, OR
Contact Dominique Bachelet

September 25-28
European Symposium on MPAs, Murcia, Spain.

September 30-Oct 6
Latin American Parks Congress, Bariloche, Argentina

October 1-4
TNC-Army Corps of Engineers 3rd Partnership Conference, Oglebay Resort, WV
Contact Rob Brumbaugh

October 3-6
Land Trust Rally Denver, CO

October 22-26
8th Pacific Islands Conference on Nature Conservation and Protected Areas Papua New Guinea

October 28-Nov 2
International Submerged Lands Management Conference, Williamsburg, VA

October 29-Nov 4
PICES / North Pacific Marine Science Organization Annual Meeting, Victoria, BC

November 4-8
ERF 2007 Estuarine Research Federation, Providence, RI

November 5-9
Gulf & Caribbean Fisheries Institute (GCFI), Dominican Republic Abstracts due August 15th.

November 5
Coastal States Organization Meeting

November 13-16
10th International Conference on Shellfish Restoration (ICSR), The Netherlands

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Marine Learning, Communications and Fundraising Tools

Marine conservation Web sites:

nature.org/marine
reefresilience.org
marineebm.org
Shellfish Network workspace
Submerged Lands Leasing and Ownership Toolkit scoping site
Resources page for U.S. Marine Fisheries Policy

Marine conservation Brochure

Marine conservation Fact sheets:

MPAs
Setting Priorities
Coastal Restoration
Shellfish Conservation and Restoration
Submerged Lands Leasing and Ownership

Pacific Island Countries Program Reports and Newsletters

Marine Conservation Exhibit & Saving Our Seas square book are available for fundraising events. Contact us.

MAR Matters (contact Nestor Windevoxhel to subscribe)

Komodo Weekly Update (contact PNK Communications to subscribe)

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