[OANNES Foro] Mobile protected areas for biodiversity on the high seas

[Mario Cabrejos]

Science  17 Jan 2020:
Vol. 367, Issue 6475, pp. 252-254
DOI: 10.1126/science.aaz9327 

Mobile protected areas for biodiversity on the high seas

Sara M. Maxwell
<https://science.sciencemag.org/content/367/6475/252?utm_campaign=toc_sci-ma
g_2020-01-16&et_rid=34815706&et_cid=3167079#aff-1> 1, Kristina M. Gjerde
<https://science.sciencemag.org/content/367/6475/252?utm_campaign=toc_sci-ma
g_2020-01-16&et_rid=34815706&et_cid=3167079#aff-2> 2, Melinda G. Conners
<https://science.sciencemag.org/content/367/6475/252?utm_campaign=toc_sci-ma
g_2020-01-16&et_rid=34815706&et_cid=3167079#aff-3> 3, Larry B. Crowder
<https://science.sciencemag.org/content/367/6475/252?utm_campaign=toc_sci-ma
g_2020-01-16&et_rid=34815706&et_cid=3167079#aff-4> 4

Summary

A new agreement is being negotiated under the 1982 United Nations Convention
on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS) to provide legally binding mechanisms to
protect the marine environment and to conserve and ensure the sustainable
use of marine biodiversity on the high seas (international waters in areas
beyond national jurisdiction) (1). One of the suggested objectives in the
current draft text is to "apply an approach that builds ecosystem resilience
to the adverse effects of climate change" when applying area-based
management tools (ABMTs), including marine protected areas (MPAs). Yet even
though climate change is resulting in shifts in species' ranges (2) and in
the behavior of the human users of mobile, commercially valuable species
(3), protection of highly mobile species and the dynamic habitats on which
they depend is not currently a focus of negotiations. With the final
language to be determined as early as 2020 (1), we urge negotiators to
include new dynamic management tools, including mobile MPAs (mMPAs), whose
boundaries shift across space and time, that could help to safeguard marine
life and build ecosystem resilience by protecting dynamic habitats as well
as migratory marine species in a changing ocean.

 

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