State of the Sunda Banda Seascape Marine Protected Area Network - 2017

The Sunda Banda Seascape (SBS) in Indonesia’s Coral Triangle is considered one of the top priority marine ecoregions for conservation by the Indonesian government. The region is divided into three subseascapes, which includes the Lesser Sunda Subseascape (LSS), the Southern-Eastern Sulawesi Subseascape (SESS), and the Inner Banda Arc Subseascape (IBAS). The SBS dashboard provides a science-based assessment of the status of 22 indicators grouped within five domains, which includes: (1) enabling conditions, (2) human well-being, (3) ecosystem health, (4) fish and fisheries, and (5) governance, across marine protected areas (MPAs) in the SBS region for 2017. Each indicator is evaluated at MPA level and then scored at the subseascape level using three categories: ‘above average/optimal’, ‘average/ acceptable’, and ‘below average/below optimal’.