The goals of the paper were to map the distribution of benthic assemblages to assess if they were properly represented in the differently protected zones, and to test the efficacy of protection by quantifying possible differences between the assemblages in two control areas and in the two A zones, where human impact is completely excluded.
While protection across the Marine Park was improved, the highly protected zones increased from 4.5% to over 33.3%.
But opening up the protected zones would be disastrous.
The key, says Roberts, is the establishment of a network of marine protected zones.
The agency has repeatedly warned both sides that hospitals and known civilian sites are, by definition, protected zones under international law.
It is no easy task in a region where "fish bombing" with dynamite or cyanide is routine, and where the enforcement of existing protected zones is often anemic.
Equally important, the review could reveal the ideologies from which built forms do not emerge: the beliefs and assumptions that underlie the drive to declare some places to be protected zones of history and others not.
In Turkey, Senator John McCain, Republican of Arizona, called on the international community to arm those rebelling against Mr. Assad and to help establish protected zones within Syria where they could be trained militarily.
In Serbia and Bosnia, many still deny or minimize the magnitude of the killings at Srebrenica and of the role of both the Serbian and Bosnian Serb leadership in the planning and final capture of the United Nations protected zones.
"The national government was not really interested in helping," Droubi said, "but the local government and fishermen realized they were losing, so everybody came together for a local solution," which was creating protected zones.
Here's an excerpt from her post centered on one example of how the establishment of marine protected zones can have a powerful impact: The overfished reefs at Cabo Pulmo on the eastern Baja California Peninsula are a case in point.
