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Marine Protected Area Contacts
WCPA Marine Staff
WCPA Marine Vice Chair
Prof Dan Laffoley
c/o Ocean Innovations Ltd
45 Caverstede Road
Peterborough PE4 6EX
United Kingdom
Tel: +44 7702 253031
Email danlaffoley@btinternet.com
WCPA Marine Regional Coordinators
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1. Antarctica |
2. Arctic |
| 3. Mediterranean & Black Seas Giuseppe Notarbartolo di Sciara Tethys Research Institute via Benedetto Marcello 43, 20124 Milano, Italy Tel: +39 335 6376035 Fax: +39 02 700518468 Email: giuseppe@disciara.net |
3. Mediterranean & Black Seas Valentina Todorova Marine Biology and Ecology Department Institute of Oceanology Bulgarian Academy of Sciences P.O.Box 152 Varna 9000 Bulgaria Tel: +359 52 370 486 Email: vtodorova@io-bas.bg |
| 4. Northwest Atlantic Jennifer Smith WWF-Canada Atlantic Regional Office Manager, GIS/Conservation Planning WWF-Canada Atlantic Regional Office 5251 Duke Street, Suite 1202 Halifax, NS Canada B3J 1P3 Tel: +1 902 482 1105 Email: jsmith@wwfcanada.org |
5. Northeast Atlantic |
| 6. Baltic Åsa Andersson Programme Officer Marine Protected Areas WWF-Sweden Ulriksdals Slott, S-170 81 Solna, Sweden Tel: +46 8 624 74 17 +46 8 624 74 17 E-mail: asa.andersson@wwf.se |
7. Wider Caribbean Patricia Lamelas Directora Ejecutiva CEBSE, Inc. Ave. La Marina, Tiro al Blanco Samana, Republica Dominicana Tel: +809-538-2042 Email: lamelasp@gmail.com |
| 7. Wider Caribbean Jean Wiener Director Fondation Pour la Protection de la Biodiversité Marine (FoProBiM) Haiti (mail) 6011 Henning St. Bethesda, MD 20817-3463 USA Tel: +1 301 365 3383 Email:jeanw@foprobim.org |
7. Wider Caribbean Tamica Rahming Director of Parks & Science Bahamas National Trust PO Box N-4105 Nassau, Bahamas Tel: +1 242 393 1317 Email: trahming@BNT.bs |
| 8. West Africa Charlotte Karibuhoye MPA programme Coordinator FIBA/ PRCM c/o UICN Avenue Bourguiba x Castors Dakar Sénégal Tel: +221 33 869 02 88 Fax: +221 33 824 92 46 Email: Charlotte.Karibuhoye@iucn.org |
9. South Atlantic Mabel Augustowski Biological Oceanographer, MSc. Rua Benjamin Constant 181 ap.23 - Embaré 11040-141 - Santos, SP - Brazil Telephone: +55.13.81271944 and +55.12.81211616 e-mail : mabelaug2@gmail.com and mabelaug@uol.com.br |
| 9. South Atlantic Alejandro Fallabrino Karumbé D. Murillo 6334 - 11500 Montevideo Uruguay Tel: +598 99917811 Email: afalla7@gmail.com |
10. Central Indian Ocean Aarthi Sridhar Senior Research Associate Ashoka Trust for Research in Ecology and the Environment No. 659, 5th A Main, Hebbal, Bangalore 560024 Pakistan Tel: +91-80 - 65356130 Email: aarthisridhar@yahoo.co.uk |
| 11. Arabian Sea Dr. Mohammed. M. A. Kotb Coordinator of Biodiversity & MPA's Programme PERSGA P. O. Box 53662 Jeddah 21583 Kingdom of Saudi Arabia Tel: +966 2 6573224 Ext. 249 Email: mohammed.kotb@persga.org |
12. East Africa To be appointed |
| 13. East Asian Sea Moi Khim Tan Manager, Database (ReefBase Project) The WorldFish Center Jalan Batu Maung, Batu Maung, 11960 Bayan Lepas, Penang, Malaysia Tel : +604 6261606 Email: m.tan@cgiar.org |
14. North and South Pacific Dr. Hugh Govan NCT member, Locally Managed Marine Area Network PO Box S-37, Superfresh Suva, Fiji Islands |
| 14. North and South Pacific Kathy Walls Director, Wildlife Conservation Society – South Pacific Programme 11 Ma’afu St, Suva, Fiji Islands Tel: +(679) 331 5174 Email: kwalls@wcs.org |
14. North and South Pacific Willy Kostka Executive Director Micronesia Conservation Trust PO Box 2177 Kolonia Pohnpei, FSM 96941 Federated States of Micronesia Tel: +691-320-5670 Email: mctdirector@mail.fm |
| 14. North and South Pacific Douglas Kusto c/o Micronesia Conservation Trust PO Box 2177 Kolonia Pohnpei, FSM 96941 Federated States of Micronesia Email: mctgrants@mail.fm |
14. North and South Pacific Francois Devinck 14, rue du RP de Fenoyl 98800 - Nouméa New Caledonia Tel: +687 27 11 38 Email:francois.devinck@mls.nc |
| 14. North and South Pacific John Parks NOAA Pacific Services Center 737 Bishop Street, Suite 2250 Honolulu, HI 96813-3213 USA Tel: +1 (808) 532-3972 Fax: +1 (808) 532-3224 Email: john.parks@noaa.gov |
14. North and South Pacific Alifereti Tawake Project Manager LMMA (Asst), Institute of Applied Science Faculty of Science and Technology University of the South Pacific P.O Box 1168 Suva FIJI Tel: +679-3232974 Fax: +679-323 1534 Email: tawake_a@usp.ac.fj |
| 15. Northeast Pacific Kate Willis Ladell Marine Planning and Protected Areas Specialist Oceans, Habitat and Enhancement Branch Fisheries and Oceans Canada 200-401 Burrard Street Vancouver, Canada V6C 3S4 Tel: +1 604 666-1089 Email: Kate.Ladell@dfo-mpo.gc.ca |
15. Northeast Pacific
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| 16. Northwest Pacific Kohei Hibino Research Scientist Japan Wildlife Research Center 3-10-10 Shitaya Taito-ku Tokyo 110-8676 Japan Tel: +81 3 5824 0967 Fax: +81 3 5824 0968 Email: khibino@jwc.or.jp |
16. Northwest Pacific Albert Choi Professor School of Applied Marine Science Cheju National University 66 Jejudaehakno Jeju 690-756 Korea Tel: +82-64-754-3422 Fax: +82-64-756-3493 Email: skchoi@cheju.ac.kr |
| 17. Southeast Pacific Carlos Gaymer Profesor Asociado Departamento de Biologia Marina Centro de Estudios Avanzados en Zonas Aridas (CEAZA) Universidad Catolica del Norte Larrondo 1281, Casilla 117 Coquimbo, Chile Tel: +56-51-209969 Email: cgaymer@ucn.cl |
17. Southeast Pacific Maximiliano Bello Oceana Avenida General Bustamante No 24, Departamento 2C 750-0776 Providencia, Santiago Republic of Chile Tel: + 56-2-795-7140 Fax: +56-2-795-7144 Email: mbello@oceana.org |
| 17. Southeast Pacific Eliecer Cruz Director Galapagos Ecoregion World Wildlife Fund Ecuador Tel: + 593-5-2526053 Email: eliecer.cruz@wwfgalapagos.org |
18. Australia/New Zealand Jon Day Director, Outlook Report Taskforce Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority P.O. Box 1379 Townsville, QLD 4810 Australia Tel: +61 (0)7 4750 0803 Fax: +61 (0)7 4772 6093 Email: j.day@gbrmpa.gov.au |
The ecosystem-based regional framework used by the WCPA – Marine Plan of Action
Photo: (from: Kelleher, G., Bleakley, C., and Wells, S., (eds.), 1995. A global representative system of marine protected areas. Volume 1. Antarctic, Arctic, Mediterranean, Northwest Atlantic, Northeast Atlantic and Baltic. Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority, The World Bank, The World Conservation Union (IUCN).)
Senior Advisory Group
| Name | Region | Affiliation |
| Rili Djohani | SE Asia | Country Director, The Nature Conservancy |
| Sylvia Earle | North America | Executive Director, Conservation International |
| Bill Eichbaum | Marine public policy and governance | Vice President – Marine Portfolio, WWF - US |
| Julius Francis | East Africa | Executive Director, Western Indian Ocean Marine Sciences Association (WIOMSA) |
| Nicole Glineur | Global | Program Manager Biodiversity & Private Sector, The Global Environment Facility |
| Henning von Nordheim | Europe | Scientific Director, Federal Agency for Nature Conservation |
| Graeme Kelleher | Oceanea & High Seas | Oceanea & High Seas Senior Advisor; Chairman, WCPA/IUCN High Seas Task Force |
| Dan Laffoley | Global | WCPA – Marine Vice Chair & Chair of Senior Advisory Group |
| Jane Lubchenco | Pacific North America | Wayne & Gladys Valley Professor of Marine Biology, Oregon State University |
| Rolph Payet | Small Island States | Chairman, Seychelles Centre for Marine Research and Technology - Marine Parks Authority (SCMRT-MPA) |
| Sr. Jaime Rovira | South America | Member of the National Environmental Commission of Chile, specialist in nature resources conservation |
| Rodney V. Salm | Western Indo-Pacific | Director, Marine Conservation, The Nature Conservancy |
| Sebastian Troeng |
Global | Director, Regional Marine Strategies, Conservation International. |
| Alan T. White | Global | Senior Scientist, Global Marine Initiative, The Nature Conservancy |









