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Every tiny organism plays a crucial role in our planet's health.

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With a size of just 0.5 to 0.7 micrometres in diameter, Prochlorococcus—a marine bacteria—produces roughly 20% of our earth's oxygen. Every tiny organism plays a crucial role in our planet's health. Learn more about UNEP 's work to protect our ocean and seas.

TARGET 3 of the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework (KMHBF).

 Ensure and enable that by 2030 at least 30% of terrestrial and inland water areas, and of marine and coastal areas, especially areas of particular importance for biodiversity and ecosystem functions and services, are effectively conserved and managed through ecologically representative, well-connected and equitably governed systems of protected areas and other effective area-based conservation measures, recognizing indigenous and traditional territories, where applicable, and integrated into wider landscapes, seascapes and the ocean, while ensuring that any sustainable use, where appropriate in such areas, is fully consistent with conservation outcomes , recognizing and respecting the rights of indigenous peoples and local communities, including over their traditional territories.

TARGET 2 of the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework (KMHBF).

Ensure that by 2030 at least 30 per cent of areas of degraded terrestrial, inland water, and marine and coastal ecosystems are under effective restoration, in order to enhance biodiversity and ecosystem functions and services, ecological integrity and connectivity.