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This project falls within the Sea Around Us Project,an activity initiated and funded by the
Pew Charitable Trusts, and hosted by the University of British Columbia's Fisheries Centre.
It is the result of a formal collaboration between the Sea Around Us Project, World Wildlife
Fund (WWF), United Nations Environment Programme - World Conservation Monitoring Centre (UNEP-WCMC)
and the World Conservation Union - World Commission on Protected Areas (IUCN-WCPA).
This project has two main goals: firstly, to develop a more robust global marine protected area (MPA)
baseline than currently exists; and secondly, to develop alternative scenarios of global MPA networks using
spatial modelling techniques.
Towards achieving the first goal, this website publishes the world's first
explicitly marine-focused database of the world's protected areas that have
some intertidal and/or subtidal component. It is currently based largely on
information in the World Database on Protected Areas (WDPA) Version 6.1.
The aims of this database are to:
i. provide information that has not, to date, been readily available;
ii. attract feedback to greater improve the quality and breadth of information available.
The database is freely searchable.
A summary by location can be found here.
Should you wish to provide edits to the database, you are kindly invited to register.
Registration is required to enable us to fully acknowledge your
contributions to the database. Suggested edits will be reviewed before being
incorporated into the official version of the database. All suggested edits will be retained (used or not) for comparative purposes
and explicitly referenced to their provider.
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Marine Protected Areas of the World:
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