The World Bank has released a report that assesses factors likely to determine MPA success and identifies opportunities for the Bank and its partners to scale up MPA implementation to meet global conservation targets, such as those set at the World Summit on Sustainable Development (MPA News 4:3). The report focuses on the intersection of MPAs and poverty. It examines how best to capture the potential benefits of MPAs for helping the world's poor, while addressing the sociocultural and political realities of restricting access to the sea and regulating what has traditionally been considered common property. Included are studies of MPA implementation in three countries - the Philippines, Chile, and Brazil. The 100-page report, Scaling Up Marine Management: the Role of Marine Protected Areas, is available in PDF format at http://siteresources.worldbank.org/INTCMM/Publications/21108865/Final_Printed_Version_MPA_ESW.pdf.