MPA Monitor: Assessing Canada’s Marine Protected Areas [October 2021]

CPAWS presents MPA Monitor: Assessing Canada’s Marine Protected Areas – a detailed report that investigates how well protected and well managed Canada’s Marine Protected Areas (MPAs) really are. Presently, almost 14% of Canada’s ocean is protected and the country is committed to protecting 25% by 2025 and 30% by 2030.

We analysed about half of the protected areas and found that the majority is weakly protected. CPAWS is the first organization to use a ground-breaking new MPA evaluation tool, The MPA Guide, to examine 18 MPAs that make up 8.3% of Canada’s ocean.

Learn More: cpaws.org/oceanreport