The National Geographic Society launched the Pristine Seas project in 2008 and has completed 30 expeditions that helped create 22 marine reserves. Its research indicates crucial areas to safeguard in the future
. These make up two-thirds of the world’s fully protected marine areas—covering more than two million square miles in all. Now Sala and his team have set an even more ambitious goal: to see more than a third of the world’s ocean conserved for the purpose not just of sustaining biodiversity but also of replenishing fish stocks and storing carbon.satisfying aspects of his job is collaborating with local communities in the places he and his team are seeking to preserve.
Far to the west of Pitcairn, in Micronesia, Pristine Seas worked with indigenous Palauans to give an ancient conservation tradition a modern twist. For centuries Palauans have used temporary fishing closures known as, some of which banned fishing permanently. Palau’s president, Tommy Remengesau, asked Sala’s team to compare the abundance of fish inside and outside the no-take reserves. They found that the species targeted by fishers were almost twice as plentiful within the no-take areas.
Two giant manta rays feed on ocean plankton carried by the incoming tide at a reef in Palau. The country’s protected areas sustain twice as many fish and five times the number of predatory fish as nearby unprotected areas.acknowledged. In most parts of the world, marine conservation is stymied by opposition from fishing, oil, and mining interests. A mere 7 percent of the world’s ocean has any protection—mostly weak rules, with multiple exceptions—and only 2.
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