The creation of the D. Carlos Marine Nature Reserve, which will be the largest marine protected area in Portugal as it covers the Madeira-Tore and Gorringe Bank seamounts, entered public consultation today. The future D. Carlos Marine Nature Reserve has an area of 173,000 square kilometres and “will lead Portugal…
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Research vessel Mário Ruivo, from the Portuguese Institute of the Sea and Atmosphere, is carrying out the first oceanographic mission dedicated to oceanic marine protected areas, which, in this campaign, focuses on the marine sub-region of Madeira, namely the Madeira-Tore Geological Complex, with the aim of mapping a national network…