Marine in sentence

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They created a community-led protected area, a democratic system for local marine governance that was totally unimaginable just a few years earlier.

But all that is just the beginning of the story, because this handful of fishing villages taking action has sparked a marine conservation revolution that has spread over thousands of miles, impacting hundreds of thousands of people.

From Tanzania to Timor-Leste, from India to Indonesia, we're seeing the same story unfold: that when we design it right, marine conservation reaps dividends that go far beyond protecting nature, improving catches and driving waves of social change along entire coastlines, strengthening confidence, cooperation and the resilience of communities to face the injustice of poverty and climate change.

And to get there, we all need to reimagine marine conservation as a narrative of abundance and empowerment, not of austerity and alienation; a movement guided by the people who depend on healthy seas for their survival, not by abstract scientific values.

It's a project that now reaches across three continents, and its roots go into the fields of mathematics, marine biology, feminine handicraft and environmental activism.

But it's really, really bad for the marine ecosystem, and then they become addicted to dredging.

Now, you may not care about shellfish, but these changes impact economically important fisheries, like crab and salmon, and they can impact the health of marine mammals like whales.

People have created vast genomic libraries that have revolutionized what we think about the diversity of marine microorganisms.

In the ocean, marine reptiles, giant rafts made of the living relatives of sea urchins and armored squids, ammonoids, of every kind and form.

There was an explosion of marine biodiversity.

It had been waiting there since 1960 when Alister Hardy, a marine biologist, said, "I think what happened, perhaps our ancestors had a more aquatic existence for some of the time."

Also it will attract the local marine ecology, who will find their own ecological niches within this architecture.

But if you're a marine biologist, Maldives is not such a bad place to be.

I spend as much of my time as possible investigating the marine life.

Now, I'm a marine biologist, but I'm actually a bit of an old fashioned naturalist, I suppose.

And I went off to college and got a degree in marine zoology, and then moved to Hawaii and entered graduate school at the University of Hawaii.

And this is what most marine scientists have seen too.

This is what they think is natural because we started modern science with scuba diving long after we started degrading marine ecosystems.

We have more sharks, more biomass of snappers, more biomass of herbivores, too, like these parrot fish that are like marine goats.

One very clear way is the marine protected areas, especially no-take reserves that we set aside to allow for the recovery for marine life.

But, little did I know, until I jumped for the first time in a marine reserve.

The number of species increases 21 percent; so if you have 1,000 species you would expect 200 more in a marine reserve.

One point three million eggs per square meter inside the marine reserve where these snails are very abundant.

Well, there are three main reasons why we don't have tens of thousands of small reserves: The first one is that people have no idea what marine reserves do, and fishermen tend to be really, really defensive when it comes to regulating or closing an area, even if it's small.

So marine conservation and coastal protection has become a sink for government or philanthropic money, and this is not sustainable.

We really need to develop models, business models, where coastal conservation is an investment, because we already know that these marine reserves provide social, ecological and economic benefits.

It would only cost 16 billion to set up 20 percent of the ocean as marine protected areas that actually give new living choices to the fishermen as well.

So it's a real desert for not only for the penguins and the sea lions and the marine iguanas ... things die when there's no food.

I studied marine iguanas at that point.

We thought we needed a marine protected area of about 30 kilometers, and then we put a satellite tag on the back of a penguin.

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