Other effective area-based conservation measures: Creating marine refuges in Canada

The term “other effective area-based conservation measures” was created in 2010 at the 10th meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD). All parties, including Canada, agreed to an international conservation target known as Aichi Target 11 which states that 10 % of coastal and marine areas will be conserved by 2020 through systems of protected areas and other effective area-based conservation measures (“other measures”). Domestically, the Government of Canada has committed to increasing the protection of marine and coastal areas to 5% by 2017 and 10% by 2020.
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