Dependency
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Statutory Documents - IMO Publications and Documents - Resolutions - Marine Environment Protection Committee - Resolution MEPC.135(53) - Designation of the Galapagos Archipelago as a Particularly Sensitive Sea Area - (Adopted on 22 July 2005) - Annex 1 - Description of the Galapagos Archpelago Particularly Sensitive Sea Area - 2 Significance of the area - Dependency

Dependency

  2.2 The marine environment is crucially important to the survival of a large number of land or coastal organisms. Reptiles (sea turtles and the native marine iguanas), mammals (two endemic seal species and a wide variety of cetaceans) and sea birds (Galapagos penguins, albatross, petrels, flightless cormorant, boobies, seagulls, pelicans and frigates, including a surprisingly high number of endemic species) depend not only on the inshore waters but the whole area of the Galapagos marine reserve and beyond, so important are the "bajos", the Equatorial Front, the upwelling zones of the Cromwell current and the equatorial currents as feeding grounds.

Parent topic: 2 Significance of the area
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