Fourteen years after the Deepwater Horizon disaster, the wildlife and ecosystems of the Gulf of Mexico have still not recovered. As scientists continue to uncover new and disturbing things about the long-term impacts of the spill, proposals currently on the table to increase offshore drilling show that the lessons of Deepwater Horizon have not been learned.
In the final part of our series on marine protected areas we turn to an unusual underwater habitat in Puget Sound, where protections have succeeded in restoring once-depleted fish populations.
In one of the world’s most spectacular marine protection success stories, protections enabled an area of ocean off the Baja California Peninsula to recover from near-total destruction by human exploitation.
Continuing our series on MPAs around the world, we look at how protection of an “ecological crossroads” in the Gulf of Mexico has been instrumental in the recovery of local reef species populations.
After less than two decades, America’s first science-based, statewide MPA network has shown what a strategically-planned, carefully-managed MPA system can achieve.
