Enabling sufficient spatial protection and restoration of the Baltic Sea
The overall aim of the work in PROTECT BALTIC is to enable sufficient spatial protection and restoration of the marine environment to secure positive biodiversity outcomes, ensuring the maintenance of functions that secure the production of ecosystem services, enabling sustainable use of marine areas both in the short and long term.
PROTECT BALTIC develops, demonstrates, and leverages implementation of protection and restoration solutions in the Baltic Sea, across the full governance-designation-management-protection-restoration structure. The project takes a strategic ecosystem-based approach to the management of human activities, specifically focusing on measures limiting impacts of human activities on the marine ecosystem. PROTECT BALTIC focuses on spatial protection measures, which include marine protected areas (MPAs), other effective area-based conservation measures (OECMs), as well as restoration of degraded ecosystems.
