Current global marine protection targets aim to protect 10–30% of marine habitats within the
next 3–5 years. However, these targets were adopted without prior assessment of their …

Despite the considerable expansion in the number and extent of marine protected areas
during the past century, coverage remains limited amid concerns that many marine …

Abstract The United Nations' target for global ocean protection is 10% of the ocean in Marine
Protected Areas (MPAs) by 2020. There has been remarkable progress in the last decade …

This paper draws on the published literature on marine protected areas (MPAs) and marine
protected areas targets to argue that the MPA target (14.5) will dominate in the pursuit …

The use of targets to provide measurable objectives and benchmarks for management,
conservation, and restoration of ecosystems is commonplace. In the marine and coastal …

The ocean holds much of the planet's biodiversity, yet< 4% of the ocean is within protected
areas. On land, the protecting of areas with low biodiversity and under little threat, rather …

The rapid increase in the science and implementation of marine protected areas (MPAs)
around the world in the past 15 years is now being followed by similar increases in the …

The adoption of the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) Strategic Plan for Biodiversity,
along with the 20 Aichi Targets, is a strong political endorsement for integrating biodiversity …

Here, we clarify the events described on a recent paper by Soares & Lucas in Marine Policy
93 (2018) that resulted in the establishment of large marine protected areas (MPAs) in …

A leading strategy in international efforts to reverse ongoing losses in biodiversity is the use
of protected areas. We use a broad range of data and a review of the literature to show that …