Join David Guggenheim, program coordinator and lecturer for the MS in Environmental Sciences and Policy and MS in Energy Policy and Climate programs, as he hosts Johns Hopkins lecturer Staci Lewis for a discussion on the importance of understanding the environmental and socioeconomic effects created by conservation policies to predict and avoid unintended consequences. Lewis will reference a case study from the Republic of Palau, an archipelago in the Western Pacific, that in 2020 implemented two conservation policies—the establishment of the Palau National Marine Sanctuary and the banning of the export of reef fish—and dealt with the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic. She will examine the disruptions and interplay of these policies as a way to offer reflections on the design and implementation of conservation politics that best support ocean sustainability and resilience.