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Criteria for Establishing Marine Reserves

"Today [4/11/07], a new guide for establishing marine protected area networks was released at the IUCN Marine Protected Area Summit in Washington, DC... Eight criteria for establishing marine protected areas, MPAs, are given in the new guide -- representativeness, replication, viability, precautionary design, permanence, maximum connectivity, resilience, size and shape." - excerpt from this ENS web page. See the new guide.

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