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.
The Nature Conservancy collaborated with Alastair Harborne’s Tropical Fish Ecology Lab at Florida International University to model and map cumulative fishing impact and reef fish biomass across the the 580 km (360 miles) of coral reefs along Florida’s east coast. The models and resulting maps provide key insights for assessing the potential benefit of conservation and management investments such as restoration and other protection activities.
In newly-released research, authors from The Nature Conservancy, the World Resources Institute and the University of Central Florida point to some of the changes to the world of travel and tourism imposed by…
The world will get a much-needed overview of the state of its mangroves today as Global Mangrove Watch, a new, powerful remote sensing tool that has the potential to change the face of mangrove conservation and restoration, goes live.
Mangroves are a key habitat for our Mapping Ocean Wealth work, and its easy to see why. These coastal forests protect shorelines, store and sequester vast amounts of carbon, enhance fisheries, and even provide opportunities for recreation and tourism. but identifying and accessing the most reliable source of data can be a challenge. A new paper presents a potential solution.
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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