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The central initiative of the Marine Biodiversity Unit (MBU) is the completion of the Global Marine Species Assessment (GMSA) \u2013 assessing the extinction risk of 20,000 marine species for inclusion on the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species<\/a> using the IUCN Categories and Criteria<\/a>.<\/p>\n Species data and analyses generated by the Global Marine Species Assessment (GMSA)<\/u> <\/a>are used by national, regional and international conventions and policy fora around the globe to determine the state of the worlds\u2019 marine biodiversity and resources.<\/p>\n Species data and analyses generated by the Global Marine Species Assessment (GMSA)<\/u> <\/a>are used by national, regional and international conventions and policy fora around the globe to determine the state of the worlds\u2019 marine biodiversity and resources.\u00a0<\/p>\n Over the last three decades, various approaches to identifying sites of significance for biodiversity have been developed. KBAs have proven to be a key tool for guiding decisions on conservation and sustainable management.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n [\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][\/et_pb_section]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" MBU Initiatives The Global Marine Species Assessment The central initiative of the Marine Biodiversity Unit (MBU) is the completion of the Global Marine Species Assessment (GMSA) \u2013 assessing the extinction risk of 20,000 marine species for inclusion on the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species using the IUCN Categories and Criteria. Regional Initiatives Species data […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16787,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"on","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/GMSA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/981"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/GMSA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/GMSA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/GMSA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16787"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/GMSA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=981"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/GMSA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/981\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1295,"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/GMSA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/981\/revisions\/1295"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/GMSA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=981"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Regional Initiatives<\/a><\/h3>\n
Global Initiatives<\/a><\/h3>\n
Key Biodiversity Areas<\/a><\/h3>\n