November 7, 2019
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Marine Protected Areas are designed to benefit the marine ecosystem and human coastal populations, but are they actually achieving both? There are currently nearly 17,000 Marine Protected Areas (MPAs) across the globe. Broadly defined, they are patches of ocean in which human activities, often including tourism and fishing, are managed to ensure sustainability. Though large in number they only cover 11 million square miles – about eight per cent of the world’s ocean,...
