Sentence examples for mpas from inspiring English sources

One proposal comes from Australia, France and the European Union that would create seven MPAs in East Antarctica covering 1.63 million square kilometres.

Restricting fishing and protecting habitats in Antarctica is well within the reach of CCAMLR, even without these MPAs.

"MPAs often fail to reach their full potential as a consequence of factors such as illegal harvesting, regulations that legally allow detrimental harvesting, or emigration of animals outside boundaries because of continuous habitat or inadequate size of reserve," the paper states.

Most existing MPAs are small and near the coast, within countries' 200-mile (370km) "exclusive economic zones".

More emphasis is needed on better MPA design, durable management and compliance to ensure that MPAs achieve their desired conservation value".

But the protection of even 10% of Indonesia's waters would be a big achievement.The trouble is that Indonesia's MPAs often seem to exist only on paper.

On the agenda from 11 to 17 July are two proposals to create what's called Marine Protected Areas (MPA) within which are allowed varying degrees of activity, from fishing and tourism under restrictions to areas known as "no take" zones.

The US and New Zealand have another proposal to create a single MPA in the Ross Sea of about 2.3 million square kilometres including a "no take" area of 1.6 million square kilometres (for comparison, the UK is 245,000 square kilometres, Texas 696,000 and Queensland and Alaska are both about 1.7 million).

Finally, all members of the Convention must agree before an area can be marked as protected.The commission created the first Antarctic MPA in 2009 when the British government proposed listing an area near the South Orkney Islands, home to some 1,200 species.

So governments across the rich world, as well as some in developing countries, are striving to reshape their public services from ponderous bureaucracies into something nimbler and less blunder-prone.The seminar is run by the Saïd Business School and the Major Projects Authority (MPA), an agency set up by Britain's governing coalition in 2011.

In return the world's smallest democracy would not only enjoy the kudos of having the world's biggest MPA, but also hope to draw tourists.