Transforming Coral Reef Conservation in the 21st Century

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Transforming Coral Reef Conservation in the 21st
Century

• Establish and protect networks of MPAs in high
  biodiversity regions that are designed to
  survive, managed to last, and connected like
  strings of pearls across our ocean planet.
• Global initiative, led by TNC and Conservation
  International, involving wide range of partners

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Strategic Framework for MPAs

• Protect against broad threats (e.g., climate
  change) that cannot be managed at site, in
  addition to local, site-based threats
• Add concept of survivability into MPA and
  portfolio design and management, in addition to
  representation
• resilience, ability to recover
• connectivity, mutual replenishment

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Three Pillars

• Science research and application
• ecoregional planning/priority setting
• coral bleaching resilience
• fish spawning aggregation sites
• connectivity
• review existing MPAs/establish new ones
• Capacity building for effective management
• Sustainable financing

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Program Focus

• Relatively few, high priority MPA networks for
  major, integrated attention
• Leverage/outreach to other MPAs and MPA networks
  worldwide

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Sustainable Financing

• Economic incentives, especially for creating MPAs
• Increase cost effectiveness of management, build
  support, use market mechanisms
• Compatible enterprises to provide alternative
  income and generate incentives and resources
• Generate income for management, monitoring, and
  operating costs

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Possible Sustainable Finance Activities

• Tool kits/other needs-based products
• assessing enabling environment
• assessing options at sites
• developing promising approaches, with
• case studies, lessons learned
• Technical resources to help site managers
• Support RD new mechanisms
• Network to share lessons, generate ideas
• Financial resources seed, matching funds

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Planning Process Timeframe

• Seven working groups
• Initial drafts of components -- end March
• Program management, coordination arrangements
• Consultations on consolidated program -- April
  through June
• Program design completed -- June/July

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• What suggestions/input do you have for design of
  this component?
• How can we work together on the sustainable
  financing component of this program?