Marine Wilderness 10+10 Project: Bringing Back the Wild
Channel: OCTO (Open Communications for the Ocean)
Date: 2015-08-20

This webinar originally aired on 11 September 2014.

Marine Wilderness is a powerful vision of functional, healthy and resilient marine life that regenerates populations of wild species interconnected to form productive food webs.   It also provides a picture of what wild nature looks like and does compared to places with more significant human impacts.  The Marine Wilderness 10+10 Project is a collaborative effort of 10 partners led by The WILD Foundation to reverse marine life depletion and habitat decline by applying a science-based strategy to halt overfishing and destructive human use.  For 20 sites around the world (a quarter in the United States), organized teams of stakeholders equipped with project tools and visuals will chart, assess, and act to expand and deepen protections that consider livelihood, cultural and recreational concerns while ensuring ecological needs are met.  Through WILD’s partnership with the International League of Conservation Photographers (iLCP), the project will help change public values concerning marine life toward an active constituency for marine wilderness.

This webinar was co-sponsored by the NOAA National Marine Protected Areas Center, the EBM Tools Network, and MPA News, and it was presented by Julie Randall, Vice President of Programs, The WILD Foundation.