| AREA |
185,179 km2. |
| LENGTH OF MEDITERRANEAN COASTLINE |
188 km. |
| AREA OF TERRITORIAL SEA |
3950 km2. |
| PROTECTED AREAS ADMINISTRATION |
Ministry of Environment |
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| ESTABLISHED MARINE/COASTAL PROTECTED
AREAS |
| Recently, Syria started to realize
the importance of establishing protected areas as the
core of the overall protection mechanism of the marine
components of biodiversity. Studies has already been
done to nominate some areas along the Syrian shore and
Four (4) stations has been already defined as suitable
for this purpose. The main criteria for the selection
of various protected areas was biological diversity.
These areas are listed below : |
|
Ibn Hani in view to protect marine and coastal biodiversity |
|
Oum Toyour Area in vie in view to protect marine and
coastal biodiversity |
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South of Arwad in view to protect marine and coastal
biodiversity with the focus on sponges. |
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