The

World Commission on Protected Areas The World Commission on Protected Areas (WCPA) is one of six commissions of the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN). History In 1948, the IUCN established a Committee on National Parks. Two decades later the IUCN had been ask ...

(WCPA)'s

High Seas The terms international waters or transboundary waters apply where any of the following types of bodies of water (or their drainage basins) transcend international boundaries: oceans, large marine ecosystems, enclosed or semi-enclosed regiona ...

Task Force spans decades. It was officially established in 2003 following the Vth

IUCN The International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN; officially International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources) is an international organization working in the field of nature conservation and sustainable use of natu ...

World Parks Congress where marine experts formulated
10-Year High Seas MPA Strategy
The 10 year Strategy built upon the results of a joint IUCN, WCPA and WWF expert's workshop on high seas MPAs in January 2003
Towards a Strategy for High Seas MPAs

Goal

Their goal is to achieve for the High Seas the fundamental objectives of the 1988 World Conservation Strategy—repeated in IUCN's Guidelines for

Marine Protected Area Marine protected areas (MPA) are protected areas of seas, oceans, estuaries or in the US, the Great Lakes. These marine areas can come in many forms ranging from wildlife refuges to research facilities. MPAs restrict human activity for a conserv ...

s: * to maintain essential ecological processes and life support systems; * to preserve genetic diversity; and * to ensure the sustainable utilization of species and ecosystems.

Membership

The WCPA High Seas MPA Task Force is co-chaired by

Kristina Gjerde Kristina Maria Gjerde is a High Seas Policy Advisor for the International Union for Conservation of Nature Global Marine and Polar Program. She works on the Global Ocean Biodiversity Initiative and won the 2018 Boat International Visionary Ocean A ...

, High Seas Policy Advisor for the IUCN, and Alistair Graham, an international policy consultant with WWF and other organizations. The Task Force contains over 20 individual experts from a variety of government agencies, conservation organizations, scientific institutions, universities, and media. These individuals include Graeme Kelleher,

Sylvia Earle Sylvia Alice Earle ( née Reade; born August 30, 1935) is an American marine biologist, oceanographer, explorer, author, and lecturer. She has been a National Geographic explorer-in-residence since 1998. Earle was the first female chief scien ...

, Elliott Norse,

Arlo Hemphill Arlo Hanlin Hemphill (born October 7, 1971) is an American wilderness advocate. His educational background is in marine biology. Hemphill is a Fellow National of the Explorers Club and has been listed in ''Nature'' (Myers ''et al.'' 2000) as one ...

, Jeff Ardron, Dan Laffoley, Sheila Mckenna, Sue Taei and Lisa Speer.

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External links

*{{Official website, 1=http://www.iucn.org/themes/wcpa/biome/marine/highseas/about.html IUCN commissions International environmental organizations Marine conservation organizations Organizations established in 2003

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