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The Blue Belt Programme is an important policy framework of the UK for marine environmental protection and management in its overseas territories. To know about the practice and planning of marine conservation in the British Overseas Territories (BOTs), we reviewed the work performance and main strategies of marine environmental protection and management and the marine conservation planning system in the BOTs within the Blue Belt Programme, and analyzed the Ascension Island Marine Protected Area Management Plan 2021-2026 as typical planning case. The experience of the UK was summarized from two perspectives of practice and planning. The experience in marine environmental protection and management includes formulating diversified protection and management strategies, exploring open and pragmatic working mechanisms, promoting technological innovation and application, and emphasizing work progress and effectiveness. The experience in marine conservation planning includes framing the multi-tiered land-sea integrated planning system, jointly promoting the implementation with multiple stakeholders engaged, monitoring and evaluating the implementation with dynamic feedback, etc. Then, the enlightenments for China's marine conservation and marine spatial planning were discussed. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]