World Oceans Day:
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Protecting the Special Places in the SeaWorld-scale marine reserves — places where no fishing or other extractive activity is allowed — protect our global marine heritage for future generations and celebrate our shared ocean legacy. Building on the historic precedent of the Papahānaumokuākea Marine National Monument, designated as the largest marine reserve in the world in 2006 and the Marianas Trench Marine National Monument and other marine monuments in the U.S. Pacific Islands in 2009, our aim — over five years — is to establish three to five world-class, no-take marine reserves that will provide ecosystem-scale benefits and help conserve our global marine heritage. | |
Latest NewsA blueprint for blue planet protection - CNN - 29 July 2010 The Chagos Islands (PDF) - Royal Scottish Geographical Society - Summer 2010 Scientists call for large no-take areas - MPA News - July/August 2010 Will our oceans ever recover? - Science Weekly podcast - 19 July 2010. Jay Nelson's interview begins at 1:45 into the program. A call for more marine reserves - Maclean's - 1 July 2010 Environmentalists call for more ocean-scale national parks - Radio Australia - 9 June 2010 Scientists Sign Statement Calling for Large, Ecosystem-scale Marine Reserves - Pew Environment Group - 8 June 2010 (French translation) Global Ocean Legacy is a project initiated by the Pew Environment
Group in partnership with the Oak Foundation, the Robertson
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Global Ocean Legacy
