Protecting mobile marine species and habitats under climate change will require innovative and dynamic tools A new agreement is being negotiated under the 1982 United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS) to provide legally binding mechanisms to protect the marine environment and to conserve and ensure the sustainable use of marine biodiversity on the high seas (international waters in areas beyond national jurisdiction) (1). One of the suggested objectives in the current draft text is to “apply an approach that builds ecosystem resilience to the adverse effects of climate change” when applying area-based management tools (ABMTs), including marine protected areas (MPAs). Yet even though climate change is resulting in shifts in species' ranges (2) and in the behavior of the human users of mobile, commercially valuable species (3), protection of highly mobile species and the dynamic habitats on which they depend is not currently a focus of negotiations. With the final language to be determined as early as 2020 (1), we urge negotiators to include new dynamic management tools, including mobile MPAs (mMPAs), whose boundaries shift across space and time, that could help to safeguard marine life and build ecosystem resilience by protecting dynamic habitats as well as migratory marine species in a changing ocean.

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公海生物多样性移动保护区

在气候变化下保护移动海洋物种和栖息地将需要创新和动态工具 根据 1982 年联合国海洋法公约 (UNCLOS) 正在谈判一项新协议，以提供具有法律约束力的机制来保护海洋环境并保护和保护海洋环境。确保公海（国家管辖范围以外地区的国际水域）上海洋生物多样性的可持续利用(1)。当前文本草案中建议的目标之一是在应用包括海洋保护区 (MPA) 在内的区域管理工具 (ABMT) 时，“应用一种建立生态系统抵御气候变化不利影响的方法”。然而，即使气候变化导致物种分布范围的变化 (2) 以及移动的、具有商业价值的物种的人类用户的行为 (3)，保护高度流动的物种及其依赖的动态栖息地目前不是谈判的重点。最终语言最早将于 2020 年确定 (1)，我们敦促谈判者包括新的动态管理工具，包括移动海洋保护区 (mMPA)，其边界跨时空转移，有助于保护海洋生物和建立生态系统通过保护动态栖息地以及不断变化的海洋中的迁徙海洋物种来提高复原力。