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Marine Protected Areas overlook a large fraction of biodiversity hotspots

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EurekAlert

Publication Date
2018-11-08

Current marine protected areas (MPAs) leave almost three-quarters of ecologically and functionally important species unprotected, concludes a new performance assessment of the Finnish MPA network. Published in Frontiers in Marine Science, the study finds the MPAs were designated with little knowledge of local marine biodiversity -- and that increasing existing networks by just 1% in ecologically most relevant areas could double conservation of the most important species.

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https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2018-11/f-mpa110518.php