Protecting marine life in Mozambique

Numerous countries use Marine Protected Areas (MPAs) to protect critical breeding grounds and migration routes for marine life.

Sea Shepherd uses direct action tactics to protect marine life.

109. Notes the contribution of the Census of Marine Life to marine biodiversity research, and encourages participation in the initiative

122. Notes the contribution of the Census of Marine Life to marine biodiversity research, and encourages participation in the initiative

86. Notes the contribution of the Census of Marine Life to marine biodiversity research, and encourages participation in this initiative

Marine reptiles are reptiles which have become secondarily adapted for an aquatic or semi aquatic life in a marine environment.

One very clear way is the marine protected areas, especially no take reserves that we set aside to allow for the recovery for marine life.

This next one here, I did a story on the census of marine life.

There are plenty of coral dive sites and a wide variety of marine life.

Iran states that the oil spills resulting from Iraq's invasion and occupation of Kuwait affected the marine habitats and marine organisms at the initial stages of their life cycle.

Marine environment, marine resources, marine biodiversity and the protection of vulnerable marine ecosystems

While being toxic to marine life, polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs), the components in crude oil, are very difficult to clean up, and last for years in the sediment and marine environment.

Lost or abandoned fishing gear is a significant and very persistent form of marine litter. It poses a threat to the marine environment, as well as to human life and activities.

Janet Gunter showcases a local NGO, Bitonga Divers, that strives to protect marine life by making positive links between protecting sea life, tourism and economic development.

In 2008, WoRMS stated that it hoped to have an up to date record of all marine species completed by 2010, the year in which the Census of Marine Life was completed.

Marine environment, marine resources and the protection of vulnerable marine ecosystems

We urge the GMA process to build on such important international research initiatives as the Census of Marine Life.

Marine environment and marine resources

Marine environment, marine resources and sustainable development

The environmental disaster destroying seaside communities around the Gulf of Mexico and killing off marine life is a globally important tragedy.

Two kinds of bycatch plague a vessel. First, fishers catch and kill marine life that has little or no market value.

XI. Marine environment, marine resources and sustainable development

Cold, hot and warm marine currents come together here, generating a wide diversity of animal life from small coloured fish to large mammals.

Protected areas provide hope that the creatures of Ed Wilson's dream of an encyclopedia of life, or the census of marine life, will live not just as a list, a photograph, or a paragraph.

The workshop will be held in collaboration with scientists from the chemosynthetic ecosystems group and the seamounts group of the Census for Marine Life.

Marine biodiversity

Marine science

Marine debris

Marine debris

And in that disconnected state, yeah, we can build factory farms with no windows, destroy marine life and use rape as a weapon of war.

(b) Effects of marine debris (the effects of marine debris on human health, safety, tourism and other economic activities, navigation, marine species, the marine environment and fisheries) (see A 60 63, paras. 241 247)

(b) Marine debris

Global Marine Assessment

Enhanced marine scientific research is critical for sustainable exploration and exploitation of marine resources.

Now in a second project called Tagging of Pacific Pelagics, we took on the planet as a team, those of us in the Census of Marine Life.

If we continue with business as usual, we will end up destroying a vast amount of marine life, severely damaging the food chains on which we rely.

The Biotechnology Action Council programme of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) is focused on the applications of biotechnology in plants and marine life.

Marine science and technology

Rapporteur Marine Davtyan (Armenia)

Sources of marine litter

Effects of marine litter

Prevention of marine pollution

For example, dolphins and whales are completely dependent on the marine environment for all stages of their life, whereas seals feed in the ocean, but breed on land.

We must strike a balance between marine resources exploitation and the conservation of the marine environment.