A HUGE thank you to everyone that turned out last week in South Kerry for the first #MPADay with Sea Synergy.

A special thanks to Inbhear Sceine Sub Aqua Club, Vincent Hyland, Atlantic Irish Seaweed, Cafe Cois Trá and Ballinskelligs Inshore Rescue for making the day possible.

#FairSeas

Greek PM announces two national marine parks in Ionian and Aegean Seas Beyond the environmental substance, the designation of marine parks has diplomatic implications

Last Friday we celebrated #MPADay with great news from Greece🇬🇷, which announced two new national marine parks.

Among the largest #MPAs in the entire Mediterranean, they will help Greece achieve the #30x30 goal in its national waters. www.euronews.com/green/2025/0...

Marine Protected Areas (MPAs) do more than mark boundaries.
Explore how MPAs across Canada are making a difference and why they matter.

🔗 Discover more about MPA Day at mpaday.org

#MPADay #MPADay2025 #MarineProtectedAreas #COLC #OceanClimateAction #CanadaOceanMap

Marine Protected Areas (MPAs) do more than mark boundaries.
Explore how MPAs across Canada are making a difference and why they matter.

🔗 Discover more about MPA Day at mpaday.org

#MPADay #MPADay2025 #MarineProtectedAreas #COLC #OceanClimateAction #CanadaOceanMap

Even if you’re landlocked, marine protected areas (MPAs) matter.

🌀 They stabilize our climate by absorbing carbon. 🧼 They produce over half our oxygen and filter pollutants. 🍽️ They feed us 🐧 They protect species and habitats we all cherish.

Got a favorite ocean memory?

#MPADay

It’s #MPADay! 🐋🌊Marine Protected Areas help safeguard oceans—from kelp forests & deep-sea coral to whales & plankton. They’re essential for biodiversity, climate resilience & healthy communities. Today, we’re celebrating the growing network of MPAs across Canada & the people working to protect it. 💙

a painting of a seaweed forest with fish swimming around ALT: a painting of a seaweed forest with fish swimming around

🌊 On #MPADay, let's remember that most EU MPAs still allow destructive fishing like #BottomTrawling. Real protection means banning harmful practices and ensuring our marine ecosystems can thrive. 🌍🐠 #ProtectedMeansProtected

🌊 Today on #MPADay, we spotlight Cocos Island's Marine Protected Area in Costa Rica!

Through #OP4CR, we are boosting 🇨🇷 Ocean prediction capacity with DG INTPA, SINAC, and Copernicus Marine Service, co-designing a platform to track🌱 chlorophyll-a, 🌊 currents, & 🐟pelagic species.

Climate-smart ocean solutions require distinguishing marine spatial planning and marine conservation planning In a paper published this week in npj Ocean Sustainability (Nature group), researchers propose pathways to optimise synergies between marine spatial planning (MSP) and marine protected area (MPA)…

Marine spatial planning and marine protected area planning are often confused, but they serve different goals.

Integrating both, especially with climate-smart strategies, is essential to support biodiversity and manage sustainable ocean use in the face of climate change. #MPADay

map showing the location of the NACEs MPA and all of the seabird species that use the area.

It's Marine Protected Areas Day🌊

MPAs are vital to protect marine habitats & biodiversity

Analysing seabird tracking data led to the designation of NACEs in 2021💙600,000km2 protected & the first high seas MPA identified from tracking data

➡️ www.seabirdtracking.org/case-studies/naces-mpa/

#MPADay

Attendees of a seagrass monitoring workshop receiving a final briefing before putting their new skill to the test (photo courtesy of Eirian Kettle)

Seagrass species (Thalassodendron ciliatum) below the water in Nosy Be, Madagascar (photo courtesy of Eirian Kettle)

A red-knobbed starfish (Protoreaster linckii) on the sand in Sri Lanka (photo courtesy of Holly Baigent)

A group of professionals come together for a Q&A panel at the Maldives Protected & Conserved Areas Forum 2024 (photo courtesy of Jamie Small)

This #MPADay, we're reminded that every wave carries the promise of a sustainable future💙 MPAs give our planet breathing space – storing carbon, supporting biodiversity, securing livelihoods

Discover our role in #MarineConservation over the past 10 years & the value of MPAs 👉 bit.ly/JNCC-Interna...

🌊 Happy #MPADay!

The Mediterranean is rich in biodiversity but under pressure.

At @iucnmed.bsky.social, we support MPAs through:
🔹 #GL4MMPAs
🔹 #Blue4All
🔹 #RESCOM
🔹 #CP31Libya

MPAs are vital tools for conservation, resilience & community well-being 💙
#MarineProtectedAreas

Celebrating #MPADay in the Greater Skellig Coast Hope Spot. 

Here's to the people, places and species that make this part of the ocean so special...from #Portmagee to #Fenit and beyond.

Underwater by Micheal O Donnell of @Kerrysubaqua. 

#Fair Seas

#MPADay2025
#LetsTalkMPAs
#HopeSpot

Nordseeinsel Baltrum inmitten des Nationalparks Niedersächsisches Wattenmeer, einem UNESCO-Weltnaturerbe. Foto: Adobe Stock, Stephan B. Schäfer.

Heute ist internationaler Tag der Meeresschutzgebiete #MPADay 🌊 Eine Exkursion des @umweltministerium.de zeigt die Bedeutung von Wassergebieten auch an Land – von Regenwassernutzung bis hin zu klimaresilienter Forstwirtschaft. Mit vor Ort: @difu.de -Wissenschaftler Moritz Ochsmann. 👉 t1p.de/xm6ja

Underwater photograph of a vibrant coral reef ecosystem with multiple species of hard and soft corals in various colors including white, purple, and green. Numerous small orange and yellow fish swim throughout the reef structure against a deep blue ocean background. The image showcases the rich biodiversity that Marine Protected Areas help preserve.

It's Marine Protected Areas Day.

MPAs are effective in -

🐟Safeguarding biodiversity
🪸Protecting food security
🌻Building climate resilience

The world has pledged to protect 30% by 2030.
Sustained pressure, ambition, and focus are critical if we’re to achieve the #30x30 goal.
#MPADay

Promotional poster by High Seas Alliance featuring a stylized globe with orange markers, accompanied by the question 'Can you name the Hidden Natural Wonders of the world?' set against a bright blue background with wave designs.

The #HighSeasTreaty makes it possible to establish Marine Protected Areas in international waters, safeguarding biodiversity from damaging human activities.

On #MPADay, discover the 8️⃣ areas that could make up the first generation of High Seas MPAs ➡️ buff.ly/HIBidLK

Just one day to go until MPA DAY. It's the biggest ever event in support of MPAs, with 101 events, 31 countries, 115 partners, 6 continents.

All events are on mpaday.org & the QR code links to the virtual tour.

MPA Day is endorsed by @unoceandecade.bsky.social

#MPADay #Run4MPAs #MPACreativeWaves

🇨🇦 Explore Canada’s Marine Protected Areas from coast to coast to coast on the Canada Ocean Map.
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🌊 Explorez les ZPN du Canada d’une côte à l’autre avec la carte océanique en ligne.
🔗 https://canadaoceanmap.ca/

#MPADay #MPADay2025 #COLC #CCCO #OceanClimateAction #ZonesDeProtectionMarine

Nature can recover—if we let it.
Marine Protected Areas give the ocean space to heal, thrive, and sustain life.
Learn more about MPAs via https://mpaday.org/
🗺️ Explore Marine Protection in Canada at https://canadaoceanmap.ca/

#MPADay #MPADay2025 #COLC

The live virtual tour on MPA Day will take you on a trip around some beautiful Marine Protected Areas with expert guides.

To register, use the QR code in the image, or follow this link: tinyurl.com/34393udr

The Ocean Advocate is an MPA Day partner

#MPADay #LetsTalkMPAs #Run4MPAs #MPACreativeWaves

Our Life Aquatic; the ocean newsletter plumbing the depths 🌊

This week, Mandela and an #MPA ⚓ electrifying rays ⚡ defenders of the deep go big 🙏 and a temporary farewell 👋

The newsletter is on a break until mid-Sept.

Read: tinyurl.com/yn8ed5zp

#TheOceanAdvocate #OceanDecade #Vision2030 #MPADay

An invitation to register for The Ocean Advocate's MPA Day masterclass

A 1-hour online session to help you turn words into powerful sentences to reach the general public and advocate for the ocean

Register: tinyurl.com/mwzhm845

Endorsed by the @unoceandecade.bsky.social

#TheOceanAdvocate #MPADay

Our Life Aquatic - the ocean newsletter that believes together we can still save the sea 🌊

This week, lovely leopard sharks 🦈 travel with purpose 🏖️ a phenomenal MPA as we count down to MPA DAY
Read: tinyurl.com/4ydmuuvy

🙏 Kogia & The Ocean Agency for images

#theoceanadvocate #mpaday #OceanDecade

Just over two weeks away and with 55 events planned so far, both online and in person, there's something for everyone this coming MPA Day on 1 August

The website: www.mpaday.org

Endorsed by the @unoceandecade.bsky.social as a Decade Activity.

#MPADay #LetsTalkMPAs #MPACreativeWaves #Run4MPAs

‘In the ocean, we manage to make conservation very complicated…’

Meet the team! Co-founder Belinda Bramley believes that we need a community-led approach to manage MPAs.

#MPAs #30x30 #ProtectedAreas #Community30x30 #ProtectedAreasFoundation #MarineConservation #MPA #MPAday

Ocean conservation can overlook the role art plays in inspiring connection.

On 1 August, in whatever form your art takes, MPA Day invites you to:
- Share an existing piece on socials
- Explain how the ocean inspires you
- Tag MPA DAY
- Use the hashtags: #MPACreativeWaves #MPADay #LetsTalkMPAs.

Peculiar paper nautiluses, the low-down on shaky shark videos, a magnificent MPA, deep sea mining and a global call to action with @deepseaconserve.bsky.social

Read tinyurl.com/3p28uucu

Photo credits: Kogia, Protect Blue

#theoceanadvocate #whysharksmatter #MPADay #DefendTheDeep #OceanDecade

Celebrating SA’s first Marine Protected Areas Day to educate the public about coastline Activists have marked South Africa’s first ever day to raise awareness of Marine Protected Areas (MPA) through several activities to educate the public about the protected areas around the country’s c...

#SouthAfrica marked its first-ever #MPADay with a series of engaging online activities. The day highlighted the need to protect ocean ecosystems and urged the need for increased public understanding and stronger protection. #OceanProtection #MPA

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