Sentences with phrase «protected sea area»

An international commission is considering whether to designate the waters around Antarctica special marine reserves, a step campaigners say would safeguard the habitat of whales, seals and penguins and more than double the world's protected sea area.

Not exact matches

Reefs provide jobs for people in fishing and tourism industries, and they also protect coastal areas from surging seas.

Environmentalists argue fishermen will have to avoid large areas of the North Sea in order to avoid over-fishing protected species.

The mandate is «to protect oil and gas infrastructure, deter and prevent sea robbery, crude oil theft and other criminality within the joint area of operation that could impact negatively on economic activities in Niger Delta»

The researcher team agreed that including extreme sea levels into coastal impact studies is imperative in helping vulnerable parts of the world effectively protect themselves by adapting through new or upgraded infrastructure such as dikes, pumping systems, barriers, or other tools like new building codes or flood zoning that prevents new infrastructure from being built in high - risk areas.

The Pew Environment Group's Global Ocean Legacy program has set its sights on two further massive protection areas in the near future: they hope to see New Zealand approve a 630,000 square km area in the Kermadec Islands later this year, and Australia protect 900,000 square km in the Coral Sea in 2012.

The new Ross Sea Marine Protected Area, at over twice the size of Texas, will be the world's largest marine reserve.

In late October, an international commission announced an unprecedented agreement more than six years in the making: the world's largest marine protected area, more than twice the size of Texas, in Antarctica's Ross Sea.

This data set is being used to inform the management of a new Marine Conservation Zone (MCZ) that protects the only area of deep - sea coral habitat in English waters.

By examining an old crevasse along Bayou Lafourche, a precursor of the Mississippi River, the researchers found that mud can build enough land to keep up with sea level rise if the diversion flows into existing vegetated areas protected from marine forces.

Others present what the area could look like with construction to protect against sea - level rise, like a sea wall or an eco-berm, a landscaped levee.

It also has the ability to set up marine protected areas in the Southern Ocean, such as one proposed for the Ross Sea.

Some tentative goals include eliminating overfishing, preventing extinctions, and setting aside 15 % of the land and sea as protected areas.

Obama will visit the protected area on Sept. 1 to draw attention to the threat that climate change poses to oceans, traveling to Midway Atoll - a remote coral reef that was the site of a pivotal World War Two battle and is now known for its sea turtles, monk seals, and millions of seabirds.

Here local authorities instituted the Adriatic Sea's largest marine protected area for dolphins, only for the designation to lapse when commercial developers touted the jobs and other economic benefits that a recreational marina could provide.

That same year the state proposed a $ 14 - billion plan to restore the delta's natural wetlands — which, by absorbing water, can help protect inland areas from sea surges.

President Obama is expanding a national protected marine area of more than 582,000 square miles of land and sea around the Hawaiian islands.

President Obama built upon President Bush's initial proclamation to expand the protected area to now include 582,578 square miles of land and sea.

She has published over 30 conservation science papers on topics such as climate vulnerability and adaptation, marine protected areas, conservation planning, coral reef resilience, ocean acidification, sea - level rise, blue carbon, customary tenure, and partnerships between religious groups and conservation.

«It will be simpler, cheaper and more effective from a conservation viewpoint to protect the whole Coral Sea area as one no - take zone».

In mountainous areas far from the sea, iodine in butter protects against goiter.

One of the most popular attractions near the resort is the Hol Chan Marine Reserve that was established in 1987 to protect sea life that is unique to the area.

With as much as 40 % of the countryÂ's overall area protected under wildlife sanctuaries, marine reserves and national parks, the country is a haven for a large variety of birds, mammals and sea creatures.

In the 1980s Belizean biologist Janet Gibson campaigned successfully for the establishment of Hol Chan, insisting that the marine protected area contain slices of all three crucial Mesoamerican Reef provinces: mangrove, sea grass, and coral reef.

Within the park and sanctuary a network of Marine Protected Area (MPAs) provide a refuge for sea life and opportunities for recreation, education, and science.

This protected area has no less than: 360 different coral and 600 fish species, 11 sharks and 13 whales and dolphins, 6 sea turtles, mantas and nudibranchs.

The scenery and warm protected waters teeming with marine wildlife make Desolation Sound one of the best sea kayaking areas on the B.C. coast.

Once the female turtle heads back to sea, the marine biologist or hotel employees will relocate the eggs to a protected area to ensure that nesting sea turtles go undisturbed.

The whole of the coastline, including the beaches and the sea itself, has been protected since 1972, so development in the area has all but halted completely.

We also have an outside covered seating area at the stern of the boat for those that want the feeling of the wind through their hair without the heat from the sun, as this is a covered area that is protected from the sea and elements..

Tubbataha National Park is a protected marine area and bird sanctuary in the Sulu Sea.

The Maputaland and St Lucia Marine Reserves are linked to each other to form a continuous protected area stretching 150 km from the Mozambique border southwards to Cape Vidal and 3 nautical miles out to sea.

• Sleeps 6 • Three bedrooms - one double, one twin and one single • Two bathrooms - one en suite • Convenient dining area opposite the kitchen • Comfortable lounge with TV which opens through double doors to an outdoor patio and breakfast table • Collection of quality DVDs and, for reading, contemporary fiction • Separate kitchen fully equipped with a microwave, oven / stove, dishwasher, fridge / freezer, and washing machine • Outside drying area for washing • Deck area with railings and full sea vista, a sunny braai area • Enclosed protected lower patio provides secure child play area and protected braai area • Off road car parking • All linen and towels provided • WiFi and DSTV

Del Mar Landing State Marine Reserve (SMR) is a marine protected area that lies onshore, about two miles (3 km) south of the town of Gualala and three and a half miles north of Sea Ranch in Sonoma County on California's north central coast.

This protected offshore wilderness — known as the «Galapagos of the Pacific» - attracts whales, dolphins, sea lions and other ocean creatures specific to the area.

Humans also harvest sea urchins both commercially and recreationally at the Channel Islands in areas that are not designated as marine protected areas.

Similarly stunning is the delta of the River Danube, a protected area of wetlands and a haven for birdwatchers where this legendary waterway meets the Black Sea in southern Romania.

[144] The role of sea otters in maintaining kelp forests has been observed to be more important in areas of open coast than in more protected bays and estuaries.

As defined by the International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN), a protected area is «an area of land and / or sea especially dedicated to the protection and maintenance of biological diversity, and of natural and associated cultural resources, and managed through legal or other effective means.»

The reserve is known as an MPA or Marine Protected Area, and it is home to a thriving marine ecosystem that boasts one of the highest concentrations of sea - life in all of California.

Description Enjoy sea Kayaking at the southern end of the 60 mile stretch of the Monterey Bay National Marine Sanctuary, the nation's largest protected marine area.

Enjoy sea Kayaking at the southern end of the 60 mile stretch of the Monterey Bay National Marine Sanctuary, the nation's largest protected marine area.

The shoreline in front of Sapphire Seas offers a gentle lagoon - like reef - protected beach with a small sandy beach area.

Typically, a California sea lion his age would be with his mother on the Channel Islands, a protected area that serves as the primary rookery for these animals, where thousands of mother sea lions give birth and nurse their pups for 10 - 11 months.

Guests and owners at Playa Las Tortugas are blessed with the rare opportunity to work alongside veterinarians and biologists of Mexico's National Commission of Protected Areas (CONANP) in protecting endangered Olive Ridley and Hawksbill sea turtles.

Our charming Koh Chang Hotel is set in a delightful cove within the Koh Chang National Park, a protected area of outstanding natural beauty with magnificent jungles, waterfalls, mountains, panoramic sea views and beautiful sunsets all close at hand.

You can hire a local tour guide who can take you to the sea turtle nesting area at night; no one is permitted to enter the 22 kilometer protected stretch after 6 p.m. without a tour guide.

This is an important protected area for sea turtles, and has tide pools that make interesting swimming and snorkeling spots.

With 206,000 hectares of sea, the Loreto Bay National Marine Park has been a protected area for more than 20 years now, and more than 50 dive sites to discover..

Rainsong Wildlife Sanctuary has been trying to organize to protect the area's sea turtles, which are being killed for their shells (especially the highly endangered Hawksbill turtle), sold to Chinese companies for carving into trinkets.