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| Two new marine protected areas decreed by Brazil's President
by Instituto Terramar, SAMUDRA News Alert 15 June 2009 | |
| | On World Environment Day the President of Brazil, Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, and Environment Minister Carlos Minc decreed that two more marine protected areas be created in Cassurubá and Prainha do Canto Verde. Marine extractivist reserves, a form of marine protected area with defined user rights, are contracted out to the communities that live in the surrounding area. They are an adaptation of the “Reservas Extrativistas” or RESEX, a novel and unique partnership in natural resource extraction and conservation that Brazil has been experimenting with since 1989. The two new marine protected areas decreed by President Lula are marine RESEX. | |
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