Sara Maxwell on the need for mobile marine protected areas

IAS faculty member Sara Maxell is cited in a recent UW News article, "Mobile protected areas needed to preserve biodiversity in the high seas," for her research and adcocacy work on including mobile marine protected areas in the U.N. Convention on the Law of the Sea.

“In the context of climate change, the way that we have been applying things in the past is not likely to work into the future,” Maxwell says. “Species will increasingly need protection, and we will need to apply more dynamic and innovative tools to be effective.” Read more in the article linked above.