Global Linkages

Biodiversity conservation

Protected areas in a changing environment

OKHOTSK SEA

Alaska (USA)

BERING SEA

PACIFIC OCEAN

A R C T I C C I R C L E

CANADA

ARCTIC OCEAN

HUDSON BAY

North Pole

BAFFIN BAY

Greenland (Denmark)

NORWEGIAN SEA

ICELAND

FINLAND

ATLANTIC OCEAN

SWEDEN

Faroe Islands (Denmark)

NORWAY

Percent change 1982-2012 Normalized difference vegetation index (NDVI)

Regulated areas

Changes in sea ice extent Sea ice extent in September 1981 Sea ice extent in September 2018

UNESCO heritage sites Ramsar sites

Protected areas CAFF boundary

- 40% to 0 0 to + 25% 25 to 50%

Magnitude change 1982-2012 Summer open water

Ecologically or biologically significant marine areas

- 40%

- 20%

0

20%

40%

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