In this episode I am talking with marine biologist Jessica Meeuwig. Mrs Meeuwig is a professor of Marine Conservation at the University of Western Australia and inaugural director of the Center for Marine Futures. In my conversation with her, we speak about:

• the importance of marine parks for ocean health
• research around the benefits of marine parks
• the role of no-take zones
• Ngari Capes Marine Park
• fishery's management
• shark culling
• the importance of sharks for ocean health
• the difficulty of activism in science
• the power of community, democracy and participation
• the Center of Marine Futures
• the connection between science and art
• climate change
• and many other things.

If you want to find more about Jessica Meeuwig visit her website: https://meeuwig.org.

If you want to have a look at the map of the Ngari Capes Marine Park we talked about go to:

https://www.dpaw.wa.gov.au/images/documents/parks/management-plans/decarchive/20120471-ngari-capes-marine-park-mp-74-2013-2023-v10.pdf

And for now, thank you for listening!

Your Kathi

And as always, if you want to find out more about the podcast go to www.creative-ecology-podcast.com, where you can leave a comment or suggest a guest you would like to see on the show. And if you want to have a look at my art, you can go to: www.katharina-meister.com.