Protected areas play an important role in conserving the biodiversity and thus sustaining rural livelihoods.
Monitoring protected areas is vital to understanding this and for making relevant management decisions.
Developers Coriolis and Falck Renewables said the farm would not impact on protected areas.
The protected areas limit both commercial and recreational fishing in hopes of restoring the coastal ecosystem.
In 21 countries, mainly in the tropics, more than 90% of protected areas were vulnerable.
Now more than ever we need a bold vision - big, ocean-wide networks of highly-protected areas.
For example, the offset sites include 6, 000 hectares of forests establishing new de facto protected areas.
"We focus a lot on marine protected areas, " said Laddie Akins, the executive director of REEF.
Knowing the economic value that can be wrung from protected areas without damaging them is decisive.
Even though those are protected areas in many cases, because the prey has been hunted out.
Marine Protected Areas help recover marine environments in order to provide natural solutions to critical environmental challenges.
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Furthermore, protected areas supply a range of ecosystem services to societies such as clean water, wild food and genetic material.
The situation in the Gulf of Mexico is a poignant example of why protected areas are critically needed.
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Late last night, the California Fish and Game Commission voted to establish a large network of marine protected areas.
Fishing will be banned completely in about 18 percent of the protected areas.
The core area is composed of various protected areas under the management and ownership of the Scottish National Heritage.
The site contains five different protected areas, including national parks and forestry districts.
"In Europe we now have a network of protected areas, as well as strong conservation laws, " he told CNN.
In May 2000, Bill Clinton issued an executive order to develop a system of marine protected areas in America.
Protected areas were initiated in Mongolia as far back as the 13th century during the era of Genghis Khan.
While mining would not be legal in the protected areas, hunting and grazing would be considered on a case-by-case basis.
The government and the bank have helped local people to establish protected areas, organise businesses, and market wood and other products.
And the country has nearly 24% of its land area as protected areas, including national parks, conservation areas and wildlife reserves.
The last few hundred can only be found in a few protected areas in Kenya and in Murchison Falls National Park, Uganda.
The legislation established 30% of its remaining forests as national protected areas.
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But the president's decision to shrink protected areas around rivers frustrated greens.
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Her work will develop a global monitoring framework for protected areas.
The government has opted to do away with some protected areas in order to make environmental impact studies on large hydroelectric dams feasible.
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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But firms in more protected areas of the domestic economy have fared badly: profitability, wages and investment have declined in the past decade.
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