Area which receives protection because of its recognized natural, ecological, or cultural values.
1In 2010 the sea around Lundy was designated as the UK's first marine conservation zone.
2Funds from the conservation zone also plug holes in government funding to pay for nursery teachers and housing for health officials.
3The mark for the new marine conservation zone, or MCZ, on the other hand, is a large, wonky rectangle drawn on a map.
4Under the directive, the State is obliged to designate certain areas as nature conservation zones.
5Establishing different types of conservation zones is becoming commonplace.
6An announcement of 23 new marine conservation zones for the UK included one for "Brighton offshore".
7As their populations grow, the wolves' best friends may be tourists flocking to Guadarrama and other conservation zones.
8The remainder of these " conservation zones" can continue to be pulverised by beam trawlers and scallop dredgers.
9Faced with such pressures, these philopatrous (site-loyal) animals urgently need protection in the form of marine conservation zones.
10This is one of the reasons why I would like to designate this as a Marine Conservation Zone (MCZ).
11It laid the foundations for a national network of marine conservation zones to provide some respite for the seabed off Britain's coast.
12The government is now in breach of its promise to designate an "ecologically coherent" network of marine conservation zones by 2012.
Translations for conservation zone