by Dr. Mark Spalding During a major storm, the sea level can rise, sometimes by metres, driven by the winds and low atmospheric pressure. This is a storm surge. If it arrives at…
Over 260 million people around the world rely on marine fisheries for food and income and mangrove ecosystems directly contribute to ocean-based food production. This is especially important for coastal communities in the Global South…
Researchers at the University of Cambridge and the Nature Conservancy led a study to model and map the global distribution of carbon stored in the world’s tidal marshes. Tidal marsh ecosystems, often overlooked…
Recreational fishing in coastal and offshore waters is a globally distributed, high-value activity with numerous benefits such as health, wellbeing, jobs, income, travel, accommodation, and conservation. There are an estimated 220 million recreational…
In a breakthrough for ecosystem mapping, researchers at The University of Cambridge and TNC have published the first globally consistent map of Earth’s tidal marshes. The 10m resolution map is now publicly available…
The Nature Conservancy collaborated with scientists from the Tropical Fish Ecology Lab at Florida International University to model and map cumulative fishing impact and reef fish biomass on Florida’s Coral Reef. The research,…
Today the Global Mangrove Alliance (GMA) released their annual report, The State of the World’s Mangroves 2022, a compilation of the most current information available on what we know about mangrove forests and…
100 contributors lend expertise to first-ever The State of the World’s Mangroves publication Today the Global Mangrove Alliance released their inaugural report, The State of the World’s Mangroves, a compilation of the most…
Tidal marshes are valuable natural resources, providing a wealth of ecosystem services. Ecosystem service quantification from these habitats is improving all the time and ecosystem services are already commonly used to inform decision…
Mangrove forests support millions of coastal fishers, and a new study has not only highlighted this importance but mapped how this fishing is spread around the world.
Informed by science, communications and policy work, Mapping Ocean Wealth visualizes in quantitative terms all that the ocean does for us today, so that we make smarter investments and decisions for the ocean of tomorrow.
A global partnership of scientists, policy practitioners and financial experts launched Mapping Ocean Wealth in January 2014. Led by The Nature Conservancy, this effort was conceptualized and incubated in partnership with The World Bank and is mapping the world’s vast ocean wealth in all its many forms and changing conservation and development policies and practices in the process through an understanding of how and where ocean wealth is generated and valued.
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