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Establishment public the State placed under the tutelage Ministry responsible for Environment Agency for Marine Protected Areas was founded in 2006. Its headquarters is in Brest. The antenna New Caledonia provides support to policies public conducted by the provinces and the government of New Caledonia in the management of the marine environment and natural resources . She provides leadership and secretariat of the Local Committee the French Initiative for Coral Reefs ( Ifrecor ) . She supports New Caledonia as part of the implementation of an integrated resource management policy and ecosystems of the maritime space of New Caledonia , in a perspective of sustainable management and Collaborative Coral Sea with Australia

Internationally, the average budgets for protected areas in developing countries is estimated to be around 30 percent of what is considered to be the minimum amount required for conserving those areas. Internationally, donor assistance for biodiversity conservation has also declined, and many officially recognized parks are only paper parks , lacking sufficient funds to pay for staff salaries, fuel costs, surveys etc;