Global Marine Programme: Targeted conservation work
Technical targets are essential to focus effort and bring conservation results. WWF’s Global Marine Programme has developed two overarching targets and a set of milestones for each to guide and drive our work in the medium and long term. The targets and milestones for the current cycle of work are:
Creating new MPAs
During the last few years, WWF has helped achieve protection for more than 200,000km2 of marine areas, including coral reefs, mangrove forests, seagrass beds, fish breeding grounds, and deep-sea habitats.
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Milestones (2005-2007)
1.1 MPA Establishment - by 2007, the area of the world’s seas encompassed within Marine Protected Areas is doubled from the current value of 0.6%, and representative networks of marine protected areas are established, including within all focal marine ecoregions.
1.2 Investing in people - by 2007, measures are adopted at local, national, regional, and international levels to improve the management and long-term sustainability of Marine Protected Areas for the benefit of people and nature including within all focal marine ecoregions.
1.3 Managing external threats - by 2007, agreements, policies, or mechanisms (through government, industry, or community agreements) are put in place, that clearly and specifically protect sensitive marine habitats or species from key external threats such as shipping, oil and gas development, tourism development, aquaculture, and climate change, including within all focal marine ecoregions.
Improving fisheries management
WWF is putting pressure on governments to reduce subsidies that increase the catching capacity of their fishing fleets. For example, our Stop Overfishing campaign in 2002 pushed the EU to phase out grants for new boats and increasing the capacity of old vessels.
More on WWF’s fisheries work...
More on WWF’s fisheries work...
Milestones (2005–2007)
2.1 Ecosystem Impacts - by 2007, marine habitats, species, and ecosystems are protected through the adoption of management measures that reduce the impacts of ecosystem damage from fishing, including within all focal marine ecoregions.
2.2 Managing Fishing Fleets - by 2007, measures are adopted to better manage fisheries (through reduction of fishing capacity to levels that marine ecosystems can sustain) in national waters, on the High Seas, and in distant waters, including within all focal marine ecoregions.
2.3 Market Incentives - by 2007, economic incentives, consumer initiatives, and trade management measures are promoted and adopted at national, regional, and/or international levels to encourage sustainable fisheries, including within all focal marine ecoregions.
