Ecologists in New Zealand have shown for the first time that Marine Protected Areas – long advocated as a way of protecting threatened marine mammals – actually work.

Some sea turtles appear to be reaping the benefits of government designated areas of bodies of water, known as Marine Protected Areas (MPAs).

Special conservation zones known as marine protected areas provide many direct benefits to fisheries and coral reefs.

PARIS, March 6, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Coty Inc., a leading global beauty company, has announced a partnership agreement with the National Geographic Society, identifying

Centuries of overexploitation of fish and other marine resources — as well as invasion of fish from the Red Sea — have turned some formerly healthy ecosystems of the Mediterranean Sea into barren places, an unprecedented study of the Mediterranean concludes.