Marine Protected Areas Are Cost Effective

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

Because with marine protected areas, we actually recreate the past.

MPAs are proven to also contribute significantly to local economies.

Here's the Pacific with large MPAs and large conservation zones on it.

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

Yet others referred to the difficulties regarding the enforcement of such protected areas in the high seas.

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

This is intended to facilitate the development of marine protected areas, particularly in vulnerable environments such as seamounts and deep sea coral habitats.

Some delegations referred to the call in the Johannesburg Plan of Implementation to establish a representative network of high seas protected areas and expressed their support for exploring the potential for them, stating that they were a flexible tool that could be constructed to achieve a wide range of outcomes.

The white areas on this map are the places protected from the winter winds.

Regulations to enhance the coverage of protected areas would ensure the transfer and adoption of suitable protected area management practices.

The Committee on Fisheries briefly addressed the issue of marine protected areas, recognizing that such areas could be useful as fisheries management tools if specifically designed through acceptable processes.

Maritime claims and the delimitation of maritime zones

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

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.

In decision VII 5, the Conference of the Parties noted that there were increasing risks to biodiversity in marine areas beyond national jurisdiction and that marine and coastal protected areas were extremely deficient in purpose, numbers and coverage in these 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.

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.

Subsequently the same principle was applied in strategic regions on the sea routes to India, especially in the Persian Gulf protected states.

Prince Rainier III, my father, supported extensive research in this field and contributed to the establishment of protected marine zones in the Mediterranean.

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.

The Alpine Network of Protected Areas has engaged in a partnership with the managers of mountain protected areas in the neighbouring Carpathians. The partnership, supported by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), is aimed at the establishment of the Carpathian network of protected areas.

Sylvia was already a hero to many, and her wish was to ignite public support to create a global network of marine protected areas in order to save and restore the ocean.

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.

The extent of protected areas will triple within five years.

development of the resources of protected areas in the Central American isthmus

High seas sanctuaries, where commercial whaling is prohibited, have been established under the International Convention for the Regulation of Whaling in the Southern Ocean and the Indian Ocean.161

Many Parties, especially those that rely heavily on a single agricultural system, such as nomadic livestock husbandry (e.g. Mongolia) and atoll agriculture (e.g. Maldives), stated that the low productivity of their agricultural system will be exacerbated by the increased erosion and loss of soil fertility resulting from climate change and its adverse impact on groundwater.

Coastal zone and marine ecosystems Coral reef protection was the most common response option reported by many small island developing States to counter the adverse effects of climate change.

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33. It was reported in April 1993 that representatives of the Caribbean Conservation Association and the Government of Montserrat had signed an agreement that would strengthen the management of marine protected areas in the Territory.

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?

A Task Force on High Seas Marine Protected Areas was established in 2004 by the World Commission on Protected Areas of the World Conservation Union.

Various types of MPAs that range from sustainable use to no take have been proven to effectively preserve endangered marine species and rapidly increase fish biomass by allowing fish to reproduce undisturbed.

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Land conflicts with protected areas, land conflicts with logging and production forests

Those systems, however, are more easily amenable to the establishment of protected areas.

Congo has five of the world's richest sites of protected area, and the Okapi Faunal Reserve is one of them.

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

One point three million eggs per square meter inside the marine reserve where these snails are very abundant.

The representative of the International Union for the Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources suggested that the work by FAO on the elaboration of technical guidelines on the design, implementation and testing of marine protected areas be expedited in consultation with relevant international bodies.

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Pelagic straddling stocks exist probably everywhere.