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Status and potential of locally-managed marine areas in the South Pacific : meeting nature conservation and sustainable livelihood targets through wide-spread implementation of LMMAs.

The present document aims to assess the contribution of Community-Based MMAs and gazetted MPAs to the global WSSD and CBD MPA target of 10% coverage in the Pacific by 2020 as well as to livelihood needs and specifically:

 Establish the current status of community based sites in the Pacific Islands Region, in terms of their size, number, location and so forth, and the legislative, governance and other management processes used in their establishment and implementation;

 Assess the cost and overall effectiveness of these different community-based management sites and tools.

 Recommend potential strategies to achieve the level of upscaling that is required to achieve development and conservation targets and agendas.

published :Friday, May 22, 2009

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