Robert Turk

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Marine Protected Areas

THIRD WORKSHOP ON MARITIME AFFAIRSTowards a strategy for the Adriatic Ionian Macro-Region

Portorož, Hotel Bernardin 17. September 2012

Marine & coastal protected areas

The goal:

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THIRD WORKSHOP ON MARITIME AFFAIRSTowards a strategy for the Adriatic Ionian Macro-Region

Portorož, Hotel Bernardin 17. September 2012

healthier marine environmentgood environmental

status

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(1) Biological diversity is mantained. (3) Populations of all commercially exploited fish within safe biological

limits …(4) All elements of marine food webs …, occur at normal abundance and diversity….

By 2020, at least 17% of terrestrial and inland water, and 10% of coastal and marine areas, especially areas of particular importance for biodiversity and ecosystem services, are conserved through effectively and equitably managed, ecologically representative and well connected systems of protected areas and other effective area-based conservation measures.

CBD (Aichi) & EU target

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THIRD WORKSHOP ON MARITIME AFFAIRSTowards a strategy for the Adriatic Ionian Macro-Region

Portorož, Hotel Bernardin 17. September 2012

Regional Work programme for the Mediterranean coastal and marine protected areas, including the open sea

• Strunjan NR (90/04), SAC

• Strunjan - Stjuža NR, SAC

• Rt Madona NM (90)

• Sečovlje s. w. LP (90/01), SAC&SPA

• Debeli rtič NM (91), SAC

• Škocjanski zatok NR (98), SAC&SPA

C&MPAs

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N2k• HT 1410, Juncetalia

maritimi & HT 1140, Mudflats and sandflats not covered by seawater at low tide

• HT 1120, P. oceanicae

• HT 1110, Sandbanks which are slightly covered by seawater all the time

• HT 1170, Reefs

Bottlenose dolphins?

Loggerhead turtles?

C&MPAs

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• Albania – 125 km2

• Croatia - 600 km2 / 1,9%• Greece – 625 km2

• Italia - 70 km2

• Slovenia - 5 km2 / 0,3%

Current situation

Adriatic – 0,5%

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• data? • coordination at basin level?• political will & commitment?

uncertainties & gaps

(Notarbartolo di Sciara & Agardy 2009)

(Carboneras & Requena 2010)

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activities & projects

• undertake gap analyses to identify the ecosystems and other components of marine biodiversity that are under-represented in the existing national MPA systems and at basin level;

• initiate studies on connectivity throughout the Adriatic (habitat mapping, tagging, genetics etc.) and agree on a common assessment methodology and on a monitoring plan that could be conducted on a regular basis;

• based on the EBSA defined in the Adriatic, and the findings of the relevant recent investigations, further develop the identification of marine areas that could be proposed as protected areas;

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