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The IHO capacity building programme seeks to assess and advise on how countries can best meet their international obligations and serve their own best interests by providing appropriate hydrographic and nautical charting services. Such services directly support safety of navigation, safety of life at sea, efficient sea transportation and the wider use of the seas and oceans in a sustainable way, including the protection of the marine environment, coastal zone management, fishing, marine resource exploration and exploitation, maritime boundary delimitation, maritime defence and security, and o...[more]
Malta has designated 14 MPAs recently, with 9 MPAs declared in 2016. This comprises roughly some 3,450 square km, an area larger than the country itself. Malta is currently protecting ~ 30 % (29.88 %) of all the waters under its jurisdiction and hence has achieved more than the set national target for SDG 14.5, since more than the set 10% target has been achieved, as well as meeting the marine part of the CBD Aichi target 11. Initially Malta designated 5 MPAs as part of the marine Natura 2000 network mostly for the seagrass meadow, a priority habitat type for European waters. In 2012, it had...[more]
