New Policy Tool Could Represent Sea Change for Coral Reef Conservation

This blog delved into the personal motivations and process of bringing Other Effective Conservation Measures (OECMs) into the more formal realm of government run Marine Protected Areas (MPAs). “By bringing together a diverse group of people, we were really able to move the question of OECMs forward,” Darling said. “We’ve been able to demonstrate that OECMs have a lot of promise for advancing conservation. I don’t think we were there before the SNAPP working group.”