IUCN, Marine Conservation Programme

This text offers authoritative advice on the present day planning, policies and practices for marine protected areas. The Guidelines are intended primarily to help nations and states to establish national representative systems of marine protected areas as a vital component of the integrated management of their coastal and marine areas. The main text is supplemented by detailed appendices to assist in the planning of a system and of individual marine protected areas.

This report provides an illustration of the benefits of an interdisciplinary approach to natural to natural resource management in an area such as Parc National du Banc d'Arguin. Detailed annexes expand upon the complementary elements of a research plan which has been designed to support management initiatives.