How do we go from protecting eight per cent of marine areas to 30 per cent in less than 10 years? This question is at the heart of a global forum in Canada this weekend aiming to save marine ecosystems under threat from overfishing, pollution and climate change. On the heels of the hist
How do we go from protecting eight per cent of marine areas to 30 per cent in less than 10 years?
Scientists have said the meeting is crucial for setting up a framework to reach the agreed target at COP15 of protecting 30 per cent of the planet's lands and oceans by 2030. "We must re-think our policies, economies, priorities, and processes in ways that reflect the important role nature plays in our own health, equity, well-being and economic sustainability," said hosts Canada, which has some of the world's longest coastlines.
Now it is essential to have discussions to"establish a global network, ecologically representative and which adequately protects the whole range of ecosystem types", according to Clarke. For Sian Owen, director of the Deep Sea Conservation Coalition ,"it is crucial that both existing and emerging industries that threaten our deep ocean are quickly and unequivocally rejected and that we sustainably manage the remaining 70 per cent."
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