Sentences with phrase «protected areas worldwide»

In addition to actually cleaning up, attendees will be able to donate to the Mission Blue Foundation to help support marine protected areas worldwide.

Most of them are quite small and only some 8 percent of protected areas worldwide contain ample — and sufficiently variable — landscape to maintain their present climactic biomes 100 years from now.

These forests, like most protected areas worldwide, are in «residual areas» — those where direct human threats to biodiversity are low, and where «protection» makes little difference.

Now there are over a hundred thousand protected areas worldwide, expanding conservation to over 12 percent.

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As the first worldwide search for such hotspots, the research strengthens the argument for new marine protected areas and pinpoints areas where such no - fishing zones would be most effective.

About 200 countries worldwide committed to protecting 10 % of national marine areas by signing the Convention on Biological Diversity.

ter Steege: «Thus, if we can protect these areas from threats they face, such as fires, degradation, deforestation, large - scale damage, and mining, the Amazon could be a showcase of large - scale conservation worldwide.»

Built in 2001 Siladen Resort & Spa is an exclusive boutique dive resort located on Pulau Siladen, a lush tropical island in the heart of the Bunaken National Marine Park, a protected ocean area known worldwide for the richness of its waters and epicentre of global marine biodiversity.

More and more countries worldwide are opening protected areas to fossil fuel extraction as well as mining, logging, and plantations.

Both the Baltic in the east and especially the North Sea in the west are already among the most heavily utilised stretches of the sea worldwide, but also home to many protected species and conservation areas, such as the Wadden Sea on the German coast.