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Climate Smart Restoration<\/h1>\r\n\r\n Contact us <\/i><\/a>\r\n <\/div>\r\n <\/div>[vc_separator][vc_custom_heading text=”CLIMATE-INFORMED ECOSYSTEM RESTORATION IN MARINE PROTECTED AREAS” font_container=”tag:h1|text_align:center” use_theme_fonts=”yes”][vc_custom_heading text=”10 Challenges and Opportunities for Climate-Smart Restoration in Marine Protected Areas” font_container=”tag:h2|text_align:center” use_theme_fonts=”yes”][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1\/3″][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”1\/3″][vc_btn title=”View the Full Report” style=”custom” custom_background=”#85d1eb” custom_text=”#000000″ shape=”round” size=”lg” align=”center” el_class=”btn-blue” link=”url:https%3A%2F%2Fwww.flipsnack.com%2FACB9EFBBDC9%2Freport_10-challenges-opportunities_nationalmarinesanctuaryfdn%2Ffull-view.html”][vc_btn title=”Download the Report PDF” style=”custom” custom_background=”#85d1eb” custom_text=”#000000″ shape=”round” size=”lg” align=”center” el_class=”btn-blue” link=”url:https%3A%2F%2Fmarinesanctuary.org%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2F2024%2F10%2FReport_10-Challenges-and-Opportunities_National-Marine-Sanctuary-Foundation.pdf”][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”1\/3″][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column]
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The marine environment is increasingly facing pressures from human activities, and as a result marine protected areas (MPAs) have been established globally to manage human activities in order to maintain ecological integrity, ecosystem services, and more in valued ocean places. One such example is the <\/span>National Marine Sanctuary System<\/span><\/a>, a network of 16 underwater parks that encompasses more than 620,000 square miles of marine and Great Lakes waters.<\/span><\/p>\n

Although MPAs have some success in managing local human activities, climate change has emerged as a dominant, global-scale threat to marine ecosystems. Corals and kelps, foundational habitat-forming species groups found in the majority of national marine sanctuaries and other MPAs worldwide, have been particularly impacted by climate change and are experiencing unprecedented declines. Coral and kelp losses have been particularly profound in some national marine sanctuaries.<\/span><\/p>\n

In recent decades, restoration has emerged as a key tool for MPAs to complement management of human activities and aid in the recovery of degraded ecosystems. However, climate change has increasingly challenged the success of traditional restoration activities that seek to return an ecosystem to a prior state. It is imperative that the planning and implementation of restoration strategies for both coral reefs and kelp forests consider ongoing climate change and future climate scenarios, including the need for rapid response when acute climate pressures, such as coral bleaching events, occur.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n

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To understand how to best move marine ecosystem restoration forward in light of climate change, particularly for the increasingly threatened coral reef and kelp forest ecosystems in MPAs, the Climate-Informed Ecosystem Restoration in MPAs Symposium was convened in March 2024. This symposium brought together 60 coral reef and kelp forest experts, including MPA managers, representatives from Indigenous governments and organizations, academic scientists, restoration practitioners, and other community members to discuss synergies between coral reef and kelp forest climate threats, and to generate actionable recommendations for advancing climate-informed restoration practices for these critical habitats. The objectives of the symposium were to:<\/span><\/p>\n