Sentences with phrase «marine protected»

We concentrated on the second - biggest Estonian island, Hiiumaa, since there are two competitive plans for how to use shallow areas off the coast of the island: to create a marine protected area, or an off - shore wind farm.

Marine Protected Areas (MPAs) function as safe havens for marine life, where the ocean can rebuild and restore itself.

Marine protected area design and monitoring using satellite data: a prototype study in the Channel Islands National Marine Sanctuary (NOAA: $ 320,000).

Ocean - lovers from all walks of life came together to create marine protected areas because MPAs have been proven to enhance the resilience of ocean ecosystems to withstand cumulative impacts of human and natural stressors (e.g., pollution, coastal development, fishing pressure, climate change, etc.).

Tundi specializes in coastal planning and assessment, marine protected areas, fisheries management and ocean zoning, and has published widely in these fields.

At the kickoff of the Rio +20 Summit, Australia announced it would establish the world's largest network of marine protected areas, spanning 3.1 million square kilometers (1.19 million square miles).

A new paper makes the case that marine protected areas (MPAs) are a cost - effective way to mitigate the worst oceanic consequences of climate change.

In 2016, the CCAMLR voted to create the world's largest marine protected area in Antarctica's Ross Sea.

Environmental groups also oppose the plant, saying it overlaps with a marine protected area and runs counter to President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono's commitment to reduce carbon emissions.

«In this paper we restate something that should be obvious, if we set up a marine protected reserve where nature can reaffirm itself, it will be good for the [larger] ecosystem,» he said.

They are developing new ways of mapping marine protected areas, and working with fishermen and fishing communities to develop new fishery management strategies.

In his opening video message, His Serene Highness, Prince Albert II of Monaco, noted that securing agreement on the Ross Sea marine protected area has inspired us to use our experience, «to go further».

In 2009, 24 countries and the European Union (EU) agreed to a bold plan to create a circumpolar network of marine protected areas in the Southern Ocean around Antarctica by 2012.

Antarctica Today and Tomorrow will address the environmental challenges facing Antarctica and the Southern Ocean and discuss the opportunity posed by the creation of an East Antarctic Marine Protected Area.

This morning on the first day of the annual meeting of the Commission for the Conservation of Marine Living Resources (CCAMLR) in Hobart, the chair was asked the question on all our minds — will the East Antarctic Marine Protected Area be adopted this year?

A proposal put forward by Australia, the EU and France for a Marine Protected Area (MPA) in East Antarctic waters since 2010 did not gain the required consensus.

For his dissertation research, he is working collaboratively with commercial fishermen at the northern Channel Islands, off Santa Barbara, to collect essential fishery information on nearshore finfish inside and outside of no - take Marine Protected Areas (MPAs).

A management strategy for nearshore sedentary species using marine protected areas (MPAs) as a reference.

Work is already gearing up to create marine protected areas in the East Antarctic, Weddell Sea, and the Antarctic Peninsula, building the world's largest system of marine protected areas.

Establishing marine protected areas would allow species to recover from overexploitation; higher numbers would give their populations and gene pools more resilience in responding to climate changes.»

A proposal from Australia, France and the EU to create a second MPA, known as the East Antarctic Representative System of Marine Protected Areas (EARSMPA), still needs to be strengthened, but with the right political investment it could be the next step toward an effective network of protection for this vulnerable environment.

A network of marine protected areas (MPAs) is a scientifically proven mechanism to increase the resilience of ecosystems affected by climate change.

And just two months after the voyage, the Commission for the Conservation of Antarctic Marine Living Resources (CCAMLR), an international body that manages human activities in the Southern Ocean, took a critical step toward that protection, designating the Ross Sea as the world's largest marine protected area (MPA).

Marine protected areas are under siege by no other than global warming.

We focus on Marine Protected Areas (MPAs), offshore oil drilling, renewable ocean energy, and marine spatial planning.

International Conservation and Development, Ocean Policy, Fisheries Management, Marine Protected Areas Management, Community - Based Management

Marine Protected Areas, Ocean international policy, marine / coastal conservation, coastal planning, marine wildlife management

Marine Protected Species Management; Sustainable Fisheries; Marine Conservation Research and Management; Marine Mammal and Sea Turtle Research; Geospatial Analysis

In fall 2015, Levy interviewed a local sports - fisherman to represent the recreational fishing interest in a class debate, she conducted research on seafood retailers and sustainable fisheries as an intern for Salty Girl Seafood during her first year at Bren, and she traveled to Galápagos last summer to collect data on marine protected areas for her Group Project.

Marine megafauna conservation, International Policy, Marine Protected Areas, Community - Based Management, LatinAmerica and the Caribbean

Ocean international policy, Marine Protected Areas, Project management of marine projects, Marine mammal research and policy

Marine Pollution, Ecotourism, Business Consulting, Marine Protected Areas, Coral Reef Restoration

The Ocean Conservancy is a non-profit advocacy group, which was founded in 1972 and is headquartered in Washington, D.C.. Its goal is to promote healthy and diverse ocean ecosystems and works on many projects such as sustainable fisheries, creating marine protected areas and better marine planning.

Community - based coastal management International conservation and development Participatory project design and management Fisheries Management Marine Protected Areas / Coastal Protected Areas

Contact Marta for stories about general ocean issues affecting Europe and Oceana's European - based campaigns on Mediterranean bluefin tuna, sharks, bycatch, overfishing subsidies, driftnetting, bottom trawling, marine protected areas, Illegal, Unregulated and Unreported fishing, mercury contamination, overfishing of prey species and the «Common Fishery Policy Reform.»

• Jean Wiener, Haiti, who led community efforts to establish the country's first Marine Protected Areas for sustainable management of fisheries and mangrove forests.

We will be presenting on use of the OpenROV Trident as a Citizen Science monitoring tool in Marine Protected Areas.

• Howard Wood, Scotland, who helped establish the first community - developed Marine Protected Area in Scotland.

The Rapa Nui Rahui Marine Protected Area region is home to over 140 marine species found nowhere else on Earth, and the park will not allow industrial fishing, mining and other extractive activities... Mexico has also announced the expansion of the Revillagigedo marine park to create the largest marine reserve of its kind in North America to protect sharks, rays, whales, turtles and other important marine species.

Niue, a small island country in the South Pacific with a population of just 1,600, established a new marine protected area that covers 40 percent of the island's exclusive economic zone... In September this year, Chile announced a 740,000 - square - kilometer (285,700 - square - mile) marine reserve around its remote Easter Island.

Some countries created large marine protected areas — and other granted new land rights to indigenous communities.

The best available science suggests that a global system of marine protected areas will need to protect around one third of the sea from fishing to keep ocean ecosystems healthy and the world's fishing industry in business.»

We work in a lot of island communities, with local communities, and with indigenous groups on the creation of marine protected areas.

Larger swarms of these robots could help to monitor the health of coral reefs, the movement of larvae in marine protected areas, harmful red tide blooms, and even track oil spills.

The new species endemic to the marine protected area expanded by Obama was named in honor of his efforts to protect and preserve the natural environment.

Marine protected areas, although the picture is complicated, have the potential to serve as nurseries sustaining fisheries for nearby communities dependent on ocean resources.

While the global picture of corals is gloomy in both the shallow and deep seas, the overall evidence is strong that marine protected areas protect not only corals, but the associated biological diversity that they support — fishes, invertebrates, marine mammals, seabirds, and more.

Here's an excerpt from her post centered on one example of how the establishment of marine protected zones can have a powerful impact:

The main focus at the State Department conference today was President Obama's announcement of a new set of marine protected ocean areas by the United States and more than 20 other nations.

WWF Global published this highly informative infographic about the value of a healthy ocean and how marine protected areas (MPAs) can contribute to the rehabilitation and restoration of marine life and resources.