John Bohorquez

Journal article Npj Ocean Sustainability · December 1, 2025 Coral reefs face escalating threats from climate change, yet reducing greenhouse gas emissions alone will not ensure their survival. Local and regional conservation efforts are urgently needed to address immediate, human-induced stressors and build resilie ... Full text Cite

A roundtable on marine protected area finance: Lessons from Latin America and the Caribbean on four keys to success for improving financial sustainability

Journal article Marine Policy · December 1, 2025 MPAs around the world are often limited by insufficient financial resources for enforcement, monitoring, and other activities. One of the greatest challenges to financial sustainability is often limited financial expertise, or financial capacity, among pra ... Full text Cite

A novel framework to evaluate the financial sustainability of marine protected areas

Journal article Biological Conservation · July 1, 2023 Marine Protected Areas (MPAs) are globally underfunded. We present a five-step framework that can help practitioners prioritize actions that may improve financial sustainability, which was applied to six MPAs in Colombia, Bonaire, and Belize. Limited funds ... Full text Cite

Boost Egypt's coral reef conservation efforts.

Journal article Science (New York, N.Y.) · November 2022 Full text Cite

An evaluation of management effectiveness of China's marine protected areas and implications of the 2018 Reform

Journal article Marine Policy · May 1, 2022 Marine protected area (MPAs) and other effective area-based conservation measures (OECMs) have been crucial in protecting endangered species and habitats for sustainable ecosystem and marine biodiversity. China has nearly six decades of experience in the p ... Full text Cite

A New Tool to Evaluate, Improve, and Sustain Marine Protected Area Financing Built on a Comprehensive Review of Finance Sources and Instruments

Journal article Frontiers in Marine Science · January 25, 2022 Marine protected areas (MPAs) require sustained funding to provide sustained marine protection. Up until now government budgets, multi- and bi-lateral aid, and philanthropic grants have been commonly relied upon to finance the management and enforcement of ... Full text Cite

China's little-known efforts to protect its marine ecosystems safeguard some habitats but omit others.

Journal article Science advances · November 2021 China’s stature as the world’s major producer and consumer of seafood is legendary, but its long-standing tradition of protecting marine life domestically is virtually unknown. We present the most comprehensive database on area-based marine conservation in ... Full text Cite

WTO must ban harmful fisheries subsidies.

Journal article Science (New York, N.Y.) · October 2021 Full text Cite

Quantification and Valuation of Nitrogen Removal Services Provided by Commercial Shellfish Aquaculture at the Subwatershed Scale.

Journal article Environmental science & technology · December 2020 Eutrophication is a global environmental challenge, and diverse watershed nitrogen sources require multifaceted management approaches. Shellfish aquaculture removes nitrogen, but the extent and value of this ecosystem service have not been well-characteriz ... Full text Cite

Categorizing global MPAs: A cluster analysis approach

Journal article Marine Policy · October 1, 2019 Marine Protected Areas (MPAs) are a widely used and flexible policy tool to help preserve marine biodiversity. They range in size and governance complexity from small communally managed MPAs, to massive MPAs on the High Seas managed by multinational organi ... Full text Cite

Filling the data gap - A pressing need for advancing MPA sustainable finance

Journal article Frontiers in Marine Science · February 18, 2019 Reaching protected area (PA) coverage goals is challenged by a lack of sufficient financial resources. This funding gap is particularly pervasive for marine protected areas (MPAs). It has been suggested that marine conservationists examine examples from te ... Full text Cite