2024-05-10 16:39:23
An international study shows that only a third of the 100 main ocean conservation areas provide sufficient refuge for living things.
This is a bad blow to the “historic” objective of COP15, the fifteenth United Nations conference on biodiversity which was held in Montreal in December 2022. It was decided to protect 30% of marine and land by 2030. But on closer inspection, these objectives mask a worrying reality. In the oceans, only a third of marine protected areas are truly effective in protecting biodiversity and providing other benefits such as coastal protection, according to an international study published on May 9 in Conservation Letters .
« Our study of the 100 largest marine protected areas in the world, which represent 90% of the total protected surface of the ocean, highlights the fact that a third of them do not regulate activities incompatible with the conservation of nature, such as industrial fishing activities, explains one of the co-authors of the publication, Joachim Claudet, research director…
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