Despite the controversy about their effectiveness, the world has set bold targets to scale up the amount of ocean that our MPAs cover. We’ve already missed our first target of protecting 10% of the oceans by 2020 – in 2021, just 8% were protected. The next target to aim for is 30% by 2037, then half of the world’s ocean by 2044. If we’re to stand a chance of meeting these targets we need to get a move on.
