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Sea basin
Country
Habitats: coastal/offshore
Single MPA or MPA network
Designation type
Size (km2)
South West Atlantic Ocean
Brazil
Coastal
Single MPA
National marine park
109 km²
Main pressures on the environment
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Fishing and Illegal, Unreported and Unregulated (IUU) Fishing
Tourism and recreation
Climate change
Best practices from this site
Tourism activities, including the profitable shark-diving, occur alongside small-scale fisheries operated by the local community in some areas of one of the most successful Brazilian MPAs, Fernando de Noronha. In other areas, tourism is the sole beneficiary of ecosystem services given that access by fishers and for fisheries is prohibited.
Contact
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Royal Belgian Institute for Natural Sciences
Bob Rumes
bob.rumes@naturalsciences.be