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12-530: The marine park is located at Pratas Island (Dongsha Island) in the north of the South China Sea , and includes the Dongsha Atoll (Pratas Atoll), a circular atoll 25 kilometres (16 mi) in diameter with a tropical monsoon climate, and the surrounding seas. The total area is 3,537 square kilometres (1,366 sq mi), with 1.79 square kilometres (0.69 sq mi) of land. The Park

24-485: A marine reserve is an area which has a higher degree of legal protection than marine parks for conservation purposes. In New South Wales , there are planned marine parks which will stretch along the coastline of the entire state. France and its territories are home to nine marine parks, known as parc naturel marin  [ fr ] . Nearly all existing marine reserves have been set close to shore, mostly in territorial waters. A main reason for this lies in

36-954: A subnational entity or non-governmental organization , such as a conservation authority . The largest marine park used to be the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park in Australia , at 350,000 km² until 2010, when the United Kingdom announced the opening of the Chagos Marine Park or Chagos Archipelago . Although for many uses it is sufficient to designate the boundaries of the marine park and to inform commercial fishing boats and other maritime enterprises, some parks have gone to additional effort to make their wonders accessible to visitors. These can range from glass-bottomed boats and small submarines , to windowed undersea tubes. In New Zealand

48-1245: A lower level of protection and allows activities such as commercial and recreational fishing. The marine national parks are: Kimberley region: Gascoyne region: Parc naturel marin From Misplaced Pages, the 💕 Look for Parc naturel marin on one of Misplaced Pages's sister projects : [REDACTED] Wiktionary (dictionary) [REDACTED] Wikibooks (textbooks) [REDACTED] Wikiquote (quotations) [REDACTED] Wikisource (library) [REDACTED] Wikiversity (learning resources) [REDACTED] Commons (media) [REDACTED] Wikivoyage (travel guide) [REDACTED] Wikinews (news source) [REDACTED] Wikidata (linked database) [REDACTED] Wikispecies (species directory) Misplaced Pages does not have an article with this exact name. Please search for Parc naturel marin in Misplaced Pages to check for alternative titles or spellings. You need to log in or create an account and be autoconfirmed to create new articles. Alternatively, you can use

60-810: Is managed by the Ministry of the Interior . It was established on 17 January 2007; and on 4 October of the same year an administrative office was set up in Kaohsiung City . The park is not open to tourism due to environmental restoration, safety, and ecological studies currently in progress. Seagrass Beds are well formed in the atoll and in adjacent waters, providing rich bio-diversities of marine life from fish , jelly fish , squid , sicklefin lemon sharks , and rays to rarer sea turtles , Dugongs , and cetaceans (dolphins and whales). Recovery of green sea turtles has especially been noted. Possible use of

72-501: The Marine Parks Act 2007 (SA)  : The state of Victoria has protected approximately 5.3% of coastal waters. In June 2002, legislation was passed to establish 13 Marine National Parks and 11 Marine Sanctuaries. Victoria is the first jurisdiction in the world to create an entire system of highly protected Marine National Parks at the same time. Additional areas are listed as Marine Parks or Marine Reserves, which provides

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96-489: The Mediterranean Sea where no coastal point is farther than 200 nautical miles from waters under another jurisdiction. The trans-frontier structure of such 'Peace' Parks puts this problem aside, encouraging the local Governments involved to join forces in the pursuit of a cause higher than their national interest without prejudice to current national claims . Greenpeace is campaigning for the "doughnut holes" of

108-484: The atoll as a breeding ground by lemon sharks have been speculated due to the numbers of infants that have been discovered. Dongsha Atoll is an important stepping-stone, that promotes regional genetic and potentially demographic connectivity in the South China Sea, because larvae from Dongsha can reach many South China Sea reefs. Thus, its protection as a national park can potentially benefit the whole region. In

120-597: The fragmented nature of maritime governance in international waters, the poor enforcement of existing regulations in the High seas, plus the difficult co-management that would be required of countries often in conflict. How to circumvent such obstacles? In 2011, based on unique biological, geological and oceanographic features, the Mediterranean Science Commission proposed the creation of eight large international, coast-to coast "Marine Peace Parks" in

132-833: The past, illegal fishing has damaged the park. In 2004, a project to restore and conserve the ecology was approved, then to explore the possibility of environmental education and tourism. This article about a location in Taiwan is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Marine park A marine park is a designated park consisting of an area of sea (or lake) set aside to achieve ecological sustainability , promote marine awareness and understanding, enable marine recreational activities , and provide benefits for Indigenous peoples and coastal communities . Most marine parks are managed by national governments, and organized like 'watery' national parks , whereas marine protected areas and marine reserves are often managed by

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144-507: The western pacific to be declared as marine reserves. They are also campaigning for 40 percent of the world’s oceans to be protected as marine reserves. The Australian Government manages an estate of marine protected areas (MPA) that are Commonwealth reserves under the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999 ( EPBC Act ). As of December 2013, the following marine parks have been declared under

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