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Marine protected area (MPA) is an area in the coastal zone of land or sea specially dedicated to protection and maintenance of biological diversity and of natural and associated cultural resources, and managed through legal or other effective means. In this paper a need for designating MPAs in Pakistan is presented on the basis of case studies on mangroves and its ecosystem, corals and coral reef...