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Progress in protecting the marine and coastal environment over the past 30 years
has generally been confined to relatively few, mostly developed countries, and to
relatively few environmental issues. Overall, coastal and marine environmental
degradation not only continues but has intensified. The major threats to the oceans
that were recognized in 1972 — marine pollution, the overexploitation of living
marine resources and coastal habitat loss — still exist, despite national and
international actions to address these problems. The exploitation of living marine
resources and loss of habitats are now recognized as being at least as great a threat
to ocean health as marine pollution.
Assessments of Coastal and Marine Areas in:
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