Marine Protected Areas Are Cost Effective

Many instruments are available to provide special protection, including marine protected areas.

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

It is one of the largest marine protected areas (MPAs) in the world.

Last month, Canada designated three new marine protected areas, bringing the total to five.

We have been working with other organizations in the establishment of marine protected areas in Fiji.

During the discussions, there were diverging views as to the use and effectiveness of marine protected areas.

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.

Two of the Antarctic Specially Protected Areas for which a revised management plan was adopted in 2003 covered solely marine areas, which was a significant development in the Antarctic protected area system.

Some delegations underlined the need to adopt measures, including marine protected areas, to limit the effects of destructive fishing practices on vulnerable marine ecosystems and habitats.

The concept of marine protected areas is also gaining greater understanding and support, with several territories in the region having been designated such areas.

Canada has announced a strategy for a federal network of marine protected areas in all three of our oceans.

Some call for the formation of some kind of body with the authority to, for example, establish marine protected areas.

Another approach championed at the Johannesburg meeting was to establish a representative network of Marine Protected Areas (MPAs), including no take reserves.

During the discussions, diverging views were expressed as to the use and effectiveness of marine protected areas (see also para. 44 above).

We recognize that, as well as tackling immediate sectoral threats, the international community may need to take additional integrated measures, including establishing marine protected areas.

Without internationally agreed upon mechanisms for designating and managing marine protected areas in international waters, the commitments made in Nagoya will amount to little more than hollow promises.

It would only cost 16 billion to set up 20 percent of the ocean as marine protected areas that actually give new living choices to the fishermen as well.

The Bottom Line An investigation of the Economic, Cultural and Social Costs of Industrial Longline Fishing in the Pacific and the Benefits of Sustainable Use of Marine Protected Areas

Create a Pacific wide network of Marine Protected Areas on the high seas that allow sustainable artisanal and recreational fishing and tourism along known migratory, feeding and nesting habitats of threatened and endangered marine species Support sustainable small scale fishing

National parks and other protected areas are not adequately protected by law enforcement agencies.

But many of you have said, if you get these marine protected areas, or a reasonable regime for high seas fisheries management in place, how are you going to enforce it?

Some delegations pointed out that since measures such as marine protected areas could restrict the freedoms of the high seas, their implementation should be subject to the consent of States concerned.

There are limitations of decentralization with respect to formal protected areas. However, conflict can be reduced if the role of protected areas in the landscape becomes the focus of national conservation strategies rather than simply increasing the number of protected areas.

Protected areas are increasingly valuable tourism products what forms of additional protection within and outside protected areas would be needed to prevent tourism from generating additional impacts?

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 lessons we and other participants have learned from those domestic efforts help us understand the challenges of the World Summit on Sustainable Development commitment to establish an international network of marine protected areas.

The extent of protected areas will triple within five years.

This area is divided into a total of 157 protected areas.

Ratio of area protected to maintain biological diversity to surface areas

Furthermore, the level to which tourism contributes to the conservation of protected areas also depends on the ability of protected areas managers' to set up fruitful relationships with the private sector.

Aside from banning bottom trawling and establishing a global fund for avoided deforestation, we should designate a global network of protected marine areas, in which fishing, boating, polluting, dredging, drilling, and other damaging activities would be prohibited.

The armed groups also deforest large areas to cultivate illegal crops and open unauthorized highways in protected areas.

Welcoming also the entry into force, on 18 June 2000, of the Protocol Concerning Specially Protected Areas and WildlifeSee www.cep.unep.org law. to the Convention for the Protection and Development of the Marine Environment of the Wider Caribbean Region,

The Coalition maintained a strong interest in the implementation of the Madrid Protocol, with particular attention to the effectiveness of the environmental impact assessment process, the establishment of protected areas including marine areas, the development of one or more annexes on liability and minimizing the impacts of infrastructure.

Population trends are stable in well protected areas, and are rebuilding in a few areas which had been neglected.

A new archiving website containing information on Antarctic Protected Areas has been established.

A management plan for all Antarctic Specially Protected Areas and new Antarctic Specially Managed Areas is required by Annex V.

The trivial solution is to create really large protected areas like the Chagos Archipelago.

Rather than imposing blanket closures of vast areas, we work with the fisheries sector to determine which areas should be protected.

(p) Create, develop or expand, and maintain networks of protected forest areas, taking into account the importance of conserving representative forests, by means of a range of conservation mechanisms, applied within and outside protected forest areas

This means that, in fact, the majority of marine waste comes from coastal areas.

Another delegation expressed the view that if marine protected areas were established on the high seas, it should be done on a case by case basis and on the basis of scientific information, and even then it should be a last resort.

Venezuela is a contracting party to agreements such as the Convention for the Protection and Development of the Marine Environment of the Wider Caribbean Region and its Protocol concerning Specially Protected Areas and Wildlife, the negotiations on which Venezuela participated from the start.

The island has several protected areas, including Cabrits National Park, as well as 365 rivers.