"We focus a lot on marine protected areas, " said Laddie Akins, the executive director of REEF.
Marine Protected Areas help recover marine environments in order to provide natural solutions to critical environmental challenges.
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Late last night, the California Fish and Game Commission voted to establish a large network of marine protected areas.
In May 2000, Bill Clinton issued an executive order to develop a system of marine protected areas in America.
The 46 marine sites inscribed on the World Heritage List constitute more than one third of all marine protected areas on the planet.
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Chuck Birkeland, a coral-reef biologist at the University of Hawaii and specialist in marine protected areas, has been in the business for 30 years.
She noted her organization's leading role in protecting ocean ecosystems through the establishment of marine heritage sites, which represent one-third of the world's marine protected areas.
Our own suggestion is for governments to agree to turn the Senkakus and the seas round them along with other rocks contested by Japan and South Korea into pioneering marine protected areas.
And after a marathon twelve hours of public testimony and discussion, Fish and Game commissioners like Richard Rogers celebrated the unanimous vote that created over 200 miles of marine protected areas.
In April, as part of the TED Mission Blue Voyage in the Galapagos Islands, we launched the Mission Blue campaign, an effort to garner public support to call on governments to establish a global network of Marine Protected Areas.
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Agreed targets include: to increase the extent of land-based protected areas and national parks to 17% (up from 12.5%), to extend marine protected areas to 10% (up from under 1% at present), and to restore at least 15% of degraded areas through conservation and restoration.
In the marine realm, we are still under 1%, but we have seen rapid growth in recent years, esp. through the CI-pioneered concepts of Seascapes and Oceanscapes, and are on our way to achieving the ambitious Convention target of 10% in marine protected areas by 2020.
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Such has been the case for the pledge to restore fish stocks to sustainable levels by 2015, and the promise to create networks of protected marine areas by 2012.
Marine areas are to receive special attention by governments as part of renewed efforts to meet the Aichi Biodiversity Target 11 of ensuring that 10% of marine areas are protected by 2020.
Parties must work harder to reverse policies and practices that harm indigenous peoples and local communities in Protected Areas, especially in coastal and marine areas.
Scotland's Marine Bill passed only last year, so Scottish bids for protected areas are a little behind, but are expected to materialise next year.
Using the Aldabra atoll as an example, Frauke Fleischer-Dogley (CEO, Seychelle Islands Foundation) noted that no other international protected areas system holds its sites accountable for its conservation efforts as does the UNESCO World Heritage Marine Sites.
There are five marine reserves around Sardinia that act as hatcheries and nurseries for breeding fish, which then move out of the protected areas into those parts where the fishermen are licensed to work.
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