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Protecting Marine Life describes how North America's marine protected areas support an incredible variety of marine life and help restore fisheries.
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Discovering the Ocean's Secrets describes how marine protected areas are living laboratories for scientists to learn about our oceans, so we can all make better decisions about their—and our—future.
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Connecting Us with Nature describes how marine protected areas offer beautiful and unique places to explore and enjoy the natural world.
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Sustaining Communities describes how marine protected areas help sustain North America's economy and its coastal communities.
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The National System of MPAs An Introduction provides an overview of MPAs and the National System of MPAs. The video describes the benefits of joining the national system, and briefly discusses the membership criteria.
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Protecting Cultural Heritage Resources provides an overview of one of the goals of the National System of MPAs: conserving and managing cultural heritage resources. The video features interviews with a tribal leader and an archaeologist, and describes how MPAs can help conserve and protect our nation’s cultural heritage resources.
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Protecting Natural Heritage Resources provides an overview of one of the goals of the National System of MPAs: conserving and managing natural heritage resources. The video features interviews with MPA Center staff and a natural scientist, and describes how MPAs can help conserve and protect our nation’s biological communities, habitats, ecosystems, and processes and the ecological services, values and uses they provide.
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Protecting Sustainable Resources provides an overview of one of the goals of the National System of MPAs: conserving and managing sustainable production resources. The video features interviews with conservationists and fishermen, and describes how MPAs can help conserve and protect our nation's renewable living resources and their habitats.
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Protecting Our Planet highlights why we need the national system of marine protected areas, and features interviews with members of the MPA Federal Advisory Committee, and MPA Center staff.
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MPA Video Featured on Ocean Today Kiosk (part of Sant Ocean Hall at the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History)
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A podcast is usually an audio file published on the web, although some podcasts are in video format. The files are usually downloaded onto computers or portable listening devices such as iPods or other players. The MPA Center has been featured in one video and two audio podcasts produced by the National Ocean Service. These podcasts can be accessed below, or by visiting the National Ocean Service's multimedia web page.
