Marine Park now recognized as important to Caribbean
COLOMBIA--The Man of War Shoal Marine Protected Area, St. Maarten's first National Park, was formally listed under the Special Protected Areas and Wildlife (SPAW) Protocol on December 9, at the eighth Conference of Parties for the Specially Protected Areas and Wildlife Protocol of the Cartagena Convention in Cartagena, Colombia. Also listed at the United Nations Environment Programme/Caribbean Environment Program meeting was the Statia National Marine Park and the Saba National Marine Park.
The listing process for an area is "quite a long and involved one" that required close cooperation with our partners at the Regional Activities Centre in Guadeloupe, the Dutch Caribbean Nature Alliance and our numerous partners within the region and abroad.
"It is quite an important step to have the first protected area and one of the youngest marine protected areas of the Caribbean listed under a protocol that falls under the auspices of the United Nations Environment Programme Read more
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