The Asean region is home to a third of the world’s coastal and marine habitats, providing vital ecosystem services, including breeding, nursing and feeding grounds for fisheries, underscoring the need to protect and conserve its coastal and marine resources.
According to the Asean Centre for Biodiversity , the rich ecosystems are under threat from unsustainable resource extraction, infrastructure development, pollution, policy gaps, and population pressures.
It aims to build upon national initiatives to develop and manage MPAs, establish MPA networks and associated marine corridors, and mainstreaming integrated approaches, including in coastal management, marine spatial planning, and the ecosystem-based management of fisheries. The Asean Enmaps is implemented for five years from 2024 to 2029 by UNDP with ACB as the executing agency, in collaboration with the governments of the beneficiary countries.Every year on June 8, the world celebrates Ocean Day to call for collective actions to stop overfishing and to protect the ocean.
Tuna, sharks and rays, and other marine life, including whale sharks, dugong dugong, dolphins, and marine turtles, are also threatened with extinction. “As we mark World Oceans Day 2024…I am thrilled to launch the GEF-funded project. This initiative underscores our commitment and advances the blue economy in Southeast Asia in line with the UNDP Ocean Promise,” he added.
The project has 11 pilot sites in the three countries—two in Indonesia, five in the Philippines, and four in Thailand.
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