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two parrotfish swin near a healthy reef. Photo: Vilaine Crevette via Shutterstock
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Creating marine protected areas (MPAs) has become a more popular management and conservation strategy to counteract various anthropogenic risks and hazards... Nature’s treasure chests, coral reefs, encircled by bright majestic fish are succumbing to the disastrous effects of climate change. Increasingly warmer and more acidic oceans, reaching temperature and pH levels not seen in over 100,000 years, threaten these precious beds of jewels in the sea. In fact between 2016 and 2018 at least half of the Great Barrier Reef in Australia died.

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