The Namibian Islands’ Marine Protected Area: using seabird tracking data to define boundaries and assess their adequacy

Ludynia K, Kemper J, Roux J-P 2012. The Namibian Islands’ Marine Protected Area: Using seabird tracking data to define boundaries and assess their adequacy. Biological Conservation 156: 136-145.

Marine Protected Areas are important tools for the conservation and management of marine ecosystems, including top predators. The Namibian Islands? Marine Protected Area (NIMPA) primarily aims to improve the status of threatened seabird species breeding in Namibia and therefore needed to include all Namibian seabird breeding islands and key foraging areas. For the design of?