Coastal and marine protected areas in Mexico
Protected areas have been advocated as one of the most important and effective tools for safeguarding the world's biodiversity. A major reason for this is that they protect species from their greatest threat: habitat loss. The CBD defi nes a "protected area" as "a geographically defi ned area, which is designated or regulated and managed to achieve specifi c conservation objectives" (CBD, 2005). International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) describes it as "an area of land and/ or sea especially dedicated to the protection and maintenance of biological diversity, and of natural and associated cultural resources, and managed through legal or other effective means" (IUCN and WCMC, 1994), further expanding the description to specifi cally defi ne a "marine protected area" (MPA) as "any area of intertidal or subtidal terrain, together with its overlying water and associated fl ora, fauna, historical and cultural features, which has been reserved by law or other effective means to protect part or all of the enclosed environment" (Kelleher, 1999). It is important to bear in mind that these defi nitions do not exclude protected areas having additional objectives, such as livelihood improvement or promoting education or research, as so often happens and as Wells et al highlight (Wells et al 2007).
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| Format: | Texto biblioteca |
| Language: | eng |
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Chennai, India International Collective in Support of Fishworkers
2008
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| Subjects: | Espacios naturales protegidos, Manejo de zonas costeras, Conservación de los recursos marinos, Conservación de la diversidad biológica, |
| Online Access: | http://icsf.net/icsf2006/uploads/publications/monograph/pdf/english/issue_92/ALL.pdf |
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