In the ROPME Sea Area (the Kuwait Convention region), litter is an increasing problem, generated from land, shore and ship based activities.

III Regional Seas Programmes

GIWA focused on environmental aspects of water, comprising surface and ground waters as well as coastal and marine waters.

Coordination with the navy and customs in order to control Tunisian waters.

It also looked at integrated coastal area and river basin management, which links freshwater and coastal and marine systems, highlighting land based sources of activities affecting the quality and uses of the coastal and marine environment.

In 2001 New Zealand completed and published Ross Sea Region 2001 A State of the Environment Report for the Ross Sea Region of Antarctica.

The coastline of the ROPME Sea Area is also being used as a repository for large quantities of industrial, commercial and residential trash and other solid waste.

Regional Organization for the Protection of the Marine Environment (ROPME)  Kuwait Convention region

The aim of these activities is to prepare the ground for the development of the project in selected regions, the Mediterranean, the Caribbean, the Black Sea, the Northwest Pacific region and the South Asian Seas.

Overview of activities of regional seas programmes on marine litter

This is the realm of the Coast Redwood tree.

That applies equally in the marine realm.

Many of the deep sea communities have genetic distribution that goes ocean basin wide.

I have to travel seven oceans, and I have to come and see you.

In particular, piracy and armed robbery at sea require vigilance at the subregional, regional and international levels.

You can see the range of the Coast Redwoods. It's here, in red.

An illegal immigrant ship sank in the Aegean Sea in Turkey caused five persons death.

Regional institutions3 are contributing to the establishment of a tsunami early warning system for the region.

21 29 Establishment of a regional seas programme for the Central East Pacific region

Regional and international customs organizations are paying increasingly more attention to the regional arms crisis.

Recognizing the importance of integrated, multidisciplinary and multisectoral coastal and ocean management at the national, subregional and regional levels,

It considers approaches to the regional customs intelligence network as an effective way to improve the customs enforcement on the cross border illicit arms trade in the region.

Still exploring the deep, but learning lots from the shallow water.

(b) Capacity building, regional cooperation and coordination, and integrated ocean management, as important cross cutting issues to address ocean affairs, such as marine science and the transfer of technology, sustainable fisheries, the degradation of the marine environment and the safety of navigation

Our species are ocean basin wide.

Strengthening of security and cooperation

Piracy off the coast of Somalia is causing a great deal of concern to the shipping world.

In the area of illicit trafficking by sea, representatives welcomed the conclusion of regional and bilateral agreements in the field of maritime cooperation and supported their swift implementation.

Marine litter is found in all sea areas of the world not only in densely populated regions, but also in remote places far away from any obvious sources.

In the area of illicit trafficking by sea, representatives welcomed the conclusion of regional and bilateral agreements in the field of maritime cooperation and supported their swift implementation.

As marine litter is found in all sea areas of the world, this proposed project would concentrate first on pilot regions that are particularly affected.

It is recommended that UNEP should organize, where appropriate, further seminars on regional cooperation between customs officers, in particular for regional customs unions, thereby supporting the harmonization of legislation and customs procedures, as for UEMOA in West Africa, and promoting the creation of informal regional networks of customs officials.

Strengthening of security and cooperation in the Mediterranean region

Strengthening of security and cooperation in the Mediterranean region.

International collaboration in marine scientific research

Strengthening of security and cooperation in the Mediterranean region.

(b) A regional early warning system, such as a Regional Tsunami Early Warning Centre, in the Indian Ocean and the South East Asia region.

Acknowledging that the intensive use of the Caribbean Sea for maritime transport, as well as the considerable number and interlocking character of the maritime areas under national jurisdiction where Caribbean countries exercise their rights and duties under international law, present a challenge for the effective management of the resources,

Acknowledging that the intensive use of the Caribbean Sea for maritime transport, as well as the considerable number and interlocking character of the maritime areas under national jurisdiction where Caribbean countries exercise their rights and duties under international law, present a challenge for the effective management of the resources,

Acknowledging that the intensive use of the Caribbean Sea for maritime transport, as well as the considerable number and interlocking character of the maritime areas under national jurisdiction where Caribbean countries exercise their rights and duties under international law, present a challenge for the effective management of the resources,

If I go out in the open ocean environment, virtually anywhere in the world, and I drag a net from 3,000 feet to the surface, most of the animals in fact, in many places, 80 to 90 percent of the animals that I bring up in that net make light.

Kenya is also actively involved in the Eastern Africa Regional Seas Programme and the Global Programme of Action for the Protection of the Marine Environment from Land Based Activities, and is the coordinator of the New Partnership for Africa's Development coastal and marine thematic area.

We believe that the oceans were in the northern hemisphere, and this area in blue, which shows a depression of about four miles, was the ancient ocean area on the surface of Mars.

They were the world's largest marine protected area up until last week when the Chagos Archipelago was declared.

Regional cooperation was important to improve effectiveness of customs controls, and the development of informal regional networks of customs officials could be beneficial in combating illegal trade.