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Building Financially Sustainable Marine Protected Areas

Posted by Joseph Ierna | Long Island, Bahamas

A big question in the ocean conservation world is: Who is going to pay for all these new, greatly needed marine protected areas? Governments, public, private, or world organizations? Ocean CREST Alliance’s answer to accomplish marine protected area success: We must design and operate them like any other successful business venture by factoring in financial sustainability from the beginning. Ocean CREST Alliance has developed a unique property and operations program that provides both a vehicle for marine protected areas to be financially sustainable while operating sustainably within Nature and the community that it serves.

http://theterramarproject.org/thedailycatch/the-architecture-of-a-financially-sustainable-marine-protected-area/