Fig. 1

Overview of the distribution and protection of the six habitats globally separated by location within jurisdictions or ABNJ. (a) Illustrates the extent distribution of each habitat between jurisdictions and ABNJ. Warm-water corals, mangroves, and saltmarsh do not occur in ABNJ; (b) Represents the global coverage of PCAs for each habitat divided between jurisdictions and ABNJ. The dashed line at 30% represents the target that 30% of the ocean should be conserved by 2030, while the solid black line at 7.74% represents the current protection of the ocean surface area according to UNEP-WCMC¹⁶.