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Urban Protected Areas: Profiles and best practice guidelines

… plantations, the mountains eroded, endangering the city’s water supply. When they were reforested, recreational use was … and three other invasive snakes (USFWS, 2012). 11.5 Ballast water The ballast tanks of ships are the main pathways for invasions of …
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White Paper - Regional Seas Governance

… oil spills, nuclear accidents, invasive alien species from ballast water,2 among others. Overfishing on the high seas is in … (2005). As regards international shipping, the IMO’s 2004 Ballast Water Management Convention125 (not yet in force) is …
25 May 2026 Document in Marine and Freshwater

European Union overseas coastal and marine protected areas - overview of coastal and marine conservation efforts in the European Union's overseas countries and territories and outermost regions

… measuring the breadth of the territorial sea) is the low-water line along the coast as marked on large- scale charts … part II, section 2) The territorial sea is a belt of water not exceeding 12 nm in width measured from the … Some people believed that lionfish escaped when ships’ ballast tanks were emptied during the 1980s Other theories …
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