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<p>The UK's Overseas Territories Blue Belt initiative is on track to deliver over
4 million square kilometres of protected ocean during this year. Of the Marine Protected
Areas which have been designated to date, St Helena and South Georgia and the South
Sandwich Islands have adopted and published Marine Protected Areas (MPA) Management
Plans. The British Indian Ocean Territory has developed an internal conservation plan
which guides activities. The South Orkney Islands Southern Shelf MPA, in British Antarctic
Territory waters, is managed through the Convention for the Conservation of Antarctic
Marine Living Resources. Ascension Island and Pitcairn are in the process of developing
their Management Plans, with the support of the Blue Belt team.</p>
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