Sentence examples for marine programme from inspiring English sources

Dr Fanny Douvere, coordinator of Unesco's world heritage marine programme, says there are numerous steps the heritage body can take to help preserve these areas.

The prospect of a flood of visitors to the region was only adding to those fears of losing their livelihoods and their culture, said Austin Ahmasuk, who runs Kawerak's marine programme.

Fanny Douvere, the marine programme coordinator at Unesco, told Guardian Australia this week she could not comment on how the tree clearing regime in Queensland would affect Australia's progress on its 2050 reef conservation plan.

Berry Mulligan, international marine programme officer at the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds, said: "While research such as this is raising the alarm about plastics in our oceans, it is hard to realistically estimate the magnitude of the problem for seabirds at a global level.

"The Great Barrier Reef is definitely at a crossroad and decisions that will be taken over the next one, two, three years might potentially be crucial for the long-term conservation [of the reef]," said Fanny Douvere, from Unesco's World Heritage marine programme.

Carl-Gustaf Lundin, head of the marine programme at the International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN), suggested there could be other factors involved - notably the huge expansion in open-ocean fishing that has taken place over the century.

"The completion of this global assessment of pelagic sharks and rays will provide an important baseline for monitoring the status of these keystone species in our oceans," said Roger McManus, vice-president for marine programmes at Conservation International.

Today aircraft, fighter helicopter or sub-marine programmes are in fierce competition.

Neil Hammerschlag, who heads the RJ Dunlap marine conservation programme at the University of Miami, is beaming.

He said: "Cornwall's marine energy programme is reinforced by more than a thousand years of industrial heritage.

Choice experiments are used in order to determine how fisher participation rates change under different marine PES programme designs.