The library
A small, slowly-growing collection of source-cited primers about marine protection — how it is measured, who records it, and what the headline coverage figures actually capture and miss. Plain English. Free to copy, translate, and republish.
Every external source on every page is HEAD-probed once a day by our curator Lambda. Broken links are repaired or dropped automatically.
Primers
Read-through pieces. Each one is roughly 600–900 words, source-cited, focused on a single concept that comes up everywhere in marine-protection coverage.
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What coverage measures (and what it hides)
The single most-cited indicator in marine-protection coverage. vs , vs partially protected, the dataset behind the numbers, and the gap between “” and active enforcement. Foundational.
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What this site does not cover, and why
Per-species "buy this fish, not that fish" verdicts, "Great Pacific Garbage Patch" size claims, national whaling positions, deep-sea-mining moratorium politics, and offshore-wind-versus-marine-mammal framings are not on the map. Here is what the , , , and named ocean authorities actually publish.
How to use this library
Everything here is published under Creative Commons BY-SA 4.0. You may copy, translate, adapt, and republish any of it — please keep the source citations intact, and please publish your derivative work under the same licence so the next person can keep building.
If you are a teacher, an after-school program, a community group, a parent, a librarian, or a person who works with kids: please take what is useful and pass it on.
If you find an error, an out-of-date source, or a claim that overstates the underlying evidence: how to flag it.