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The Environment and Resources Authority recently launched a public consultation on ambitious targets and interventions for local marine protected areas (MPAs). The consultation on these ‘conservation objectives and measures’ is open until September 5.
The measures will eventually feed into fully fledged management plans for the MPAs, analogous to the Natura 2000 sites on land.
This wish-list for local MPAs has been a balancing act, following an intensive consultation period with all local marine stakeholders, involving the fishing, scuba diving, transport, infrastructure, tourism and leisure, eNGOs and a handful of other lobbies.
This perhaps explains why the wish-list out for public consumption, although an ambitious one, is not as hard-hitting as some would have hoped for, with each lobby defending tooth and nail its own interests.
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Public awareness on the protection of biodiversity is growing by leaps and bounds. This can be seen both on social media and in the primary and secondary schools, thanks to the dedication and hard work of teachers.
Without hesitation, a primary school student can tell what endemic means: a species of flora or fauna whose native distribution is limited to a specific place only. Examples are the national plant of Malta, the Maltese rock-centaury (Widnet il-baħar), and the Maltese Everlasting (Sempreviva ta’ Għawdex).
These two can be found growing wild only in the Maltese islands. That is why they are endemic and so their seeds are not found overseas and, as such, cannot be imported.
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