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Johnston Island National Wildlife Refuge
Place Matters: Emerging US Context for Conserving Special Ocean Places Dr. Charlie Wahle Senior Scientist NOAA MPA Center
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Toto, We’re Not In Kansas Anymore
1. Climate change
2. Operational challenges
3. Expanding ocean uses
4. Comprehensive spatial planning
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1. Climate Change and MPAs
Potential changes in climate and acidification may: • Alter MPA biodiversity and function • Complicate MPA effectiveness • Challenge MPA rationale • Require new management strategies • Validate MPAs as sentinel and baseline sites • Suggest new MPAs in resilient areas
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2. Operational Challenges for MPAs
These are challenging times for MPA programs: • Budget constraints • Policy debates • Stakeholder burnout • Return on investment • Stakeholder demographics
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Our Crowded Waters
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3. Oceans Are Getting Crowded
Rapidly expanding human uses both challenge and underscore need for MPAs: • Identifying ‘compatible uses’? • Carrying capacity issues in MPAs • Conflicts among allowed uses in MPAs • Broader, more diverse stakeholders • Increased industrialization: less “nature” • Rationale for MPAs (the devil you know )
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4. Regional Ocean Planning
Emerging spatial planning efforts may: • Benefit from data and tools in existing MPAs • Build upon the National System of MPAs • Identify future priority areas for MPAs • Broaden MPA constituency base • Revisit rationale and definitions of MPAs • Engage MPAs in wider regional
governance (the one you don’t know )
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• Sit back and wait for a better day?
• Move forward by:
Integrating MPAs
Connecting people and places
What To Do?
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spawning ground haul
out
seamount
wreck
beach
Traditional Thinking about MPAs: Lone Islands in a Vast Sea
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spawning ground haul
out
seamount
wreck
beach
Seabed mining Renewable energy
Shipping lane
Pelagic fishing Conservation
Aquaculture
The Emerging Picture of MPAs: Part of a Wider Mosaic of Sustainable Use
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How We Connect to Ocean Places
Your Beach,
Cove, Bay, Marsh, Coast
Human Spirit
Food Security
Recreation
Education and
Knowledge
Cultural Traditions
Energy
Coastal Economies
Livelihoods
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Making Connections: People to Places (constituents)
MPA 1
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Making Connections: Places to Places (networks)
MPA 1 MPA 2 MPA 3
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Making Connections: People to Places and People (communities)
MPA 1 MPA 2 MPA 3
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Questions?
And thanks f all the fish