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The 264 pages that link to Marine protected area, each with the reason it gives.

• StonefishRelated: Reef and coastal habitats used by stonefish can fall within protected areas.

• Tide poolRelated: Protection can limit collecting and habitat damage in tide-pool communities.

• Caribbean coral reefsRelated: Protected areas are a common tool for reducing fishing and habitat pressures on reefs.

• Eared sealRelated: Protected waters can safeguard feeding grounds and haul-out sites used by eared seals.

• Harbor sealRelated: Protected coastal waters can safeguard seal feeding, resting, and breeding habitat.

• Marine benthic zoneRelated: Protection can target vulnerable benthic habitats and their resident species.

• Nurse sharkRelated: Protected coastal habitat can reduce disturbance and fishing pressure on resting aggregations.

• Southern right whaleRelated: Protected coastal habitat can reduce disturbance in feeding and calving areas.

• African penguinRelated: Protected waters near colonies can reduce pressures on penguin foraging grounds.

• Antarctic toothfishRelated: Protected areas can safeguard toothfish habitat and the wider food web.

• Bora BoraRelated: Protecting Bora Bora’s reef and lagoon is central to sustaining marine life and tourism.

• Fur sealRelated: Protected waters can safeguard fur seals’ feeding habitat and migration routes.

• Mozambique ChannelRelated: Protected areas can safeguard channel habitats and vulnerable species.

• Oceanic dolphinRelated: Protected areas can safeguard important delphinid feeding and breeding habitat.

• Risso’s dolphinRelated: Protected waters can reduce some human pressures on resident groups.

• Sea lionRelated: Protected waters can safeguard important sea lion feeding, resting, and breeding habitat.

• SerranidaeRelated: Protection can preserve spawning sites and replenish fished serranid populations.

• Carpet sharkRelated: Protected reefs and coastal habitats can shelter bottom-associated carpet sharks.

• Clipperton IslandRelated: France designated waters around Clipperton for protection and management.

• European seabassRelated: Protected areas can safeguard seabass habitats and parts of its life cycle.

• GuitarfishRelated: Protecting coastal and seabed habitats can reduce some pressures on guitarfish populations.

• Japanese spider crabRelated: Protected waters can help conserve its habitat alongside other marine life.

• Nephrops norvegicusRelated: Protected areas can restrict fishing in habitats occupied by Nephrops.

• Neritic zoneRelated: Protected areas can safeguard vulnerable shelf habitats and their connected populations.

• AcanthuridaeRelated: Protection can reduce fishing pressure on reef fishes, including locally harvested acanthurids.

• Chuuk LagoonRelated: Protection measures can address both the lagoon’s coral ecosystems and its submerged heritage.

• DamselfishRelated: Protection of reef habitat can preserve damselfish populations and their ecological roles.

• Eagle rayRelated: Protected areas can safeguard feeding and nursery habitats used by eagle rays.

• Flores SeaRelated: Protected areas can safeguard the sea’s reefs and fisheries.

• Hector's dolphinRelated: Protected areas and fishing restrictions aim to reduce threats in dolphin habitat.

• Leafy seadragonRelated: Protected coastal habitat can reduce local threats to leafy seadragon populations.

• Levantine SeaRelated: Protected areas are one approach to safeguarding habitats and biodiversity in this heavily used sea.

• LutjanidaeRelated: Protected reef zones can shelter spawning adults and improve local snapper abundance.

• ParrotfishRelated: Fishing restrictions in protected areas can increase parrotfish abundance and size.

• Sand tiger sharkRelated: Protected coastal waters can safeguard habitat used by sand tiger sharks.

• Yellow-lipped sea kraitRelated: Protection of reef and nesting habitats can benefit the species.

• Aegean IslandsRelated: Protection measures address pressures on island waters and coastal habitats.

• Banc d'Arguin National ParkRelated: The park protects extensive marine and coastal habitats, not just terrestrial landscapes.

• Brain coralRelated: Protection can reduce local pressures on reefs where brain corals occur.

• Common seadragonRelated: Protected coastal habitat can reduce pressures on seadragon populations.

• Cow sharkRelated: Protected areas may help limit fishing impacts in habitats used by hexanchids.

• Dall's porpoiseRelated: Protected waters can reduce some local pressures on habitat and prey.

• Emperor angelfishRelated: Protection of reef habitat can benefit emperor angelfish alongside other reef species.

• European congerRelated: Protected habitats can help safeguard congers and the seabed communities they use.

• FrigatebirdRelated: Protected waters can safeguard feeding areas used by frigatebirds and other seabirds.

• Frilled sharkRelated: Protection of deep-water habitats may benefit sharks exposed to fishing pressure.

• Gulf of MaineRelated: Protected areas are one tool for conserving habitats and species in gulf waters.

• Harlequin duckRelated: Coastal protections can preserve important wintering and feeding grounds.

• Humphead wrasseRelated: Protected reef habitats can reduce local fishing pressure on the species.

• Long-tailed duckRelated: Protected wintering waters can safeguard important feeding habitat.