One step at a time... World Ocean Conference declares support for Marine Protected Areas

TED Prize winner Sylvia Earle just emailed that the World Ocean Conference in Manado, Indonesia, which has government delegations from 50 countries, is including the following statement in its closing declaration:

"We resolve to further establish and effectively manage marine protected areas, including representative resilient networks, in accordance with international law ... recognizing the importance of their contribution to ecosystem goods and services..."

Her TED Prize wish was to generate support for Marine Protected Areas (MPAs) and there's strong momentum building.  We'll be announcing an exciting project before long to advance her wish.  You can track this at http://www.tedprize.org or here on twitter: http://twitter.com/tedprize

Her amazing talk is here.