Marine protection targets: An updated assessment of global progress

ORYX

Volumn 50, Issue 1, 2016, Pages 27-35

  Boonzaier, Lisa ^a   Pauly, Daniel ^b  

^a Save Our Seas Shark Centre   (South Africa)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Aichi target 11; biodiversity; conservation target; global; international policy; marine protected area; no take area

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; CONSERVATION; DATABASE; FISHING; GLOBAL OCEAN; MARINE PARK;

AICHI; CHUBU; HONSHU; JAPAN;

EID: 84952639346     PISSN: 00306053     EISSN: 13653008     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0030605315000848     Document Type: Article

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