Protection of the Diversity of Marine Life

Improving the Sense to Protect Marine Life Diversity and Controlling Resource Utilization Intensity
Due to the present common shortage of knowledge about biological diversity, scientific, technological and institutional capacities should be made use of to provide a basic understanding. Besides, some mass media can be employed to publicize it or include some relevant issues into education program. All people including women and children, especially leaders at all levels, should realize that the ocean is a huge resource cornucopia. Although all countries
around the world are competing to develop marine resources, they will be exhausted some day.

Establishing and Perfecting Policies, Regulations and National Strategies about the Protection of Marine and Coastal Life Chinese government has always been putting much importance on protecting marine life diversity. It is the first one to approve Convention of Biological Diversity. In addition, as one of signatory nations to United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea, China resolutely performs its rights and obligations to develop, utilize and maintain the marine life in its ocean areas and the open seas. Chinese government has also established some regulations and action plans for the protection of marine life diversity.

The Construction of Scientific Investigation Method and Ecological Environment Monitoring System
Currently, China National Bureau of Oceanography has established a national ocean environment monitoring system composed of satellites, planes, boats, buoys and onshore, gaining an array of valuable materials and accomplishments of marine and coastal life diversity. In addition, it has issued over a hundred communiqués, yearbooks and reports on marine environmental quality. In order to monitor the typical marine ecosystem, local ocean administrations at different levels have established many marine environment monitoring stations together with others or just by themselves to conduct their monitoring duties on regional marine environment.

The Construction and Management of Marine Natural Reserve Areas
China has established a quite perfect marine natural reserve areas system. Currently, there are over 60 areas of this kind constructed and managed by China National Bureau of Oceanography or other relevant departments, in which 18 arenational ones. These reserve areas cover all the main marine species in China, hence protecting many rare ones.

Conducting Integrated Management of Ocean and Land and Improving Marine Environment from the Source
We cannot only dwell on the ocean when we talk about how to protect the diversity of marine life, but find out the source to prevent land-sourced pollutants from pouring into the ocean. In addition, the principle of “the person who makes the construction is expected to treat and compensate for it” should be taken into consideration in all ocean-employed projects to reduce their influences on the environment to the smallest degree.

Establishing International Coordination System to Maintain Ecological Balance Together
A lot of biological resources are owned by the whole world, so it isn’t a nation’s business to protect these resources. A nation’s biological resources may be affected by the exploitation activities conducted by another nation. Therefore, all nations are expected to have more exchanges about their activities in their ocean areas that may have some negative influences on other nations’ biological diversity and to sign some bilateral, regional and multi-lateral agreements accordingly.