WCPA – Marine is the world's premier network of Marine Protected
Area (MPA) expertise. Our mission is ‘to promote the
establishment of a global, representative system of effectively
managed and lasting networks of MPAs’. As part of the World
Commission on Protected Areas we work in partnership with IUCN's
Global Programme on Protected Areas and IUCN’s Global Marine
programme, and have members in many of the countries of the
world that border an ocean or sea. Our roles, through the unique
reach, influence, accumulated knowledge and expertise of our
members, are: - Convening, coordinating and networking, in order
to help governments and others to plan, develop and implement
MPAs, MPA networks, and the global system, and integrate them
with all other sea and coastal uses and maritime sectors; -
Ensuring better application of the best science, technical and
policy advice on MPAs, MPA networks, and the global system; -
Generating, synthesising and disseminating knowledge on MPAs,
often in the form of best practice