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Cross
Cutting Themes
MARINE
Report
// Description // Theme Focus
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Report of the Cross Cutting Theme
The cross-cutting
theme on MPAs aimed at providing key operational tools and identifying
programmes to achieve the WSSD target to establish a representative
network of MPAs by 2012. An emphasis was placed on: improving MPA
management effectiveness to protect biodiversity and increase the
flow of benefits to communities; strengthening MPAs to enhance living
marine resources and maintain ecosystem function; building resilient
MPA networks; integrating MPAs in marine and coastal governance;
and expanding MPAs in the high seas and exclusive economic zones.
Participants
addressed the MPA cross-cutting theme during sessions on: high seas
governance; strategies and tools for regional and national approaches
to building comprehensive MPA networks; benefits of MPA networks
for fisheries and endangered species; building a complex portfolio
to finance MPA networks sustainably; evaluating MPA management effectiveness;
the role of MPAs in sustainable fisheries; principles and practices
to integrate MPA management with coastal and ocean governance; incorporating
resilience into MPA design and management; and implementing MPA
networks to sustain the world’s large marine ecosystems.
Participants
in discussions on the marine cross-cutting theme acknowledged that
MPAs benefit marine ecosystems and support sustainable fisheries.
They also stressed the need to: act urgently to protect and restore
ocean health and productivity; integrate MPAs into wider coastal
and ocean governance; identify and share the benefits and costs
of MPA establishment and management; increase industry engagement
in marine conservation; establish at least five ecologically significant
and globally representative high seas MPAs by 2008; increase the
number of marine and coastal areas managed in MPAs to achieve the
2012 WSSD goal; design MPAs in such a way as to increase their resilience
in the face of global change; and substantially improve MPA management
effectiveness and increase resources for management capacity, evaluation,
and sustainable conservation.
Participants
approved two recommendations, one on a global system of MPA networks,
the other on protecting marine biodiversity and ecosystem processes
through MPAs beyond national jurisdiction.
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Description
Leads: Charles
N. Ehler (USA), Peter Cochrane (Australia)
Less than 1% of the planet's largest and most diverse biome
- marine and coastal systems - enjoys protection, and even less
is effectively managed. Can we achieve sustainability for over 70%
of the Earth's surface?
Marine
Cross Cutting Theme Brief - PDF Document
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Cross-Cutting
Theme Focus
Marine issues will be dealt with in a number of the Workshop Streams.
Specific emphasis and sessions are planned on:
| Marine PAs
and sustainable fisheries; |
| Building support
through links with marine tourism |
| Watershed
management |
| Integrated
coastal management |
| Marine PA
governance; high seas protection |
| Marine PA
management effectiveness |
| Addressing
gaps in the marine PA system |
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Programe
Marine
Cross-Cutting Theme
Leads:
Charles N. Ehler (USA), Peter Cochrane (Australia)
The
brief outline below summarizes the Marine Protected Area Cross Cutting
Theme sessions within the Congress programme. More details may be
found in the body of the programme.
Thursday
11 // Friday 12 // Saturday
13
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Documents
Linking
Coral Reef Conservation into Integrated Coastal Management as Part
of Indonesia Sea Large Marine Ecosystem. An Experience of Coral
Reef Rehabilitation and Management Program (COREMAP Phase II)
- PDF Document
The
Benefits of Marine Parks
- PDF Document
Red
Sea and Gulf of Aden Regional Network of Marine Protected Areas
- PDF Document
The
Benefits of Marine Protected Areas - PDF Document
Building
a Marine Protected Areas Network to protect endangered species:
whale conservation as a tool for integrated management in South
America - PDF Document
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Seven
Workshop Streams will be conducted over 3 days in
workshop plenaries and smaller break out groups. Three important
areas have also been identified which cut across the 7 workshop
streams. The Cross
Cutting Themes will be expected to produce specific
Congress outputs. Congress participants who have a special
interest in these themes may follow an interest thread throughout
the programme.There is also a workshop
on Mountains which will be held before the Congress.
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