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Thu, 05/14/2009 - 11:55
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PRESIDENT CALLS FOR HALT TO RAPID DESTRUCTION OF COASTAL RESOURCES
Manado, Indonesia, May 14 (ANTARA) - President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono asked on Thursday countries all over the world to stop the widespread and rapid destruction of the world's marine and coastal resources by applying ecosystem-based adaptation measures.
"We must protect them from human abuse and over-exploitation, and from the injurious impact of climate change," the president said in his keynote address to the World Ocean Conference (WOC) here.
All countries must preserve the marine and coastal resources as legacy for future generations so that they might live free from the shackles of poverty, he said.
He reminded all states of their obligation to protect and preserve the environment under article 192 of the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS) adopted in 1982.
"Indonesia will do all we can to faithfully implement UNCLOS provisions for the governance of the oceans,?"he said.
The head of state all asked all countries to enhance these priceless resources which could be a large part of the solution to the problem of food security.
"That means, apart from protecting the oceans, we must learn to sustainably farm them so that they will yield much of what we need for human nutrition-without depleting them," he said.
He said the world community could galvanize and synchronize ocean and marine research activities, noting that there was .just so much people did not know about the deep ocean and the inter-relationship between the oceans and climate change.
"We can take measures to maintain the capability of our oceans to serve as the earth's thermostat, regulating our atmosphere and the cycle of the seasons," he said.
He called for efforts to revive the dying mangrove forests to enable them to protect coastal communities from the assaults of storms and even tsunamis.
Through better fisheries management and the sanctuary of marine protected areas, people could make deep sea and coastal fisheries much more resilient in the face of climate change.
"By conserving our coral reefs, and making them particularly resistant to bleaching, we can ensure that they continue to serve as the nurseries of thriving fisheries," he said.
All the measures were some of the ecosystem-based adaptation ones that countries could and needed to carry out if they were going to reverse the degradation of marine and coastal resources, he said.***
"We must protect them from human abuse and over-exploitation, and from the injurious impact of climate change," the president said in his keynote address to the World Ocean Conference (WOC) here.
All countries must preserve the marine and coastal resources as legacy for future generations so that they might live free from the shackles of poverty, he said.
He reminded all states of their obligation to protect and preserve the environment under article 192 of the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS) adopted in 1982.
"Indonesia will do all we can to faithfully implement UNCLOS provisions for the governance of the oceans,?"he said.
The head of state all asked all countries to enhance these priceless resources which could be a large part of the solution to the problem of food security.
"That means, apart from protecting the oceans, we must learn to sustainably farm them so that they will yield much of what we need for human nutrition-without depleting them," he said.
He said the world community could galvanize and synchronize ocean and marine research activities, noting that there was .just so much people did not know about the deep ocean and the inter-relationship between the oceans and climate change.
"We can take measures to maintain the capability of our oceans to serve as the earth's thermostat, regulating our atmosphere and the cycle of the seasons," he said.
He called for efforts to revive the dying mangrove forests to enable them to protect coastal communities from the assaults of storms and even tsunamis.
Through better fisheries management and the sanctuary of marine protected areas, people could make deep sea and coastal fisheries much more resilient in the face of climate change.
"By conserving our coral reefs, and making them particularly resistant to bleaching, we can ensure that they continue to serve as the nurseries of thriving fisheries," he said.
All the measures were some of the ecosystem-based adaptation ones that countries could and needed to carry out if they were going to reverse the degradation of marine and coastal resources, he said.***
