Source: University of Canterbury
World leaders pledged to establish a network of marine protected areas (MPAs) with the goal to protect 10% of the world’s oceans by 2020, but MPAs only cover 7.66% of the ocean across the globe. University of Canterbury’s Natasha Blaize Gardiner and University of Colorado Boulder’s Cassandra Brooks weigh in on what we can do to improve the situation on The Conversation.