Leave the sea be

• Autores: James Randerson
• Localización: New scientist, ISSN 0262-4079, Nº. 3102, 2016, pág. 18
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • Randerson discusses conservationist's plan to ban fishing in the world's high seas. The plan might seem an impossible conservation dream, especially with a new US president who has rejected internationalist foreign policy and environmental protections, but it has been gaining momentum. At the Our Ocean conference, hosted by the US Department of State in Washington DC in September, Secretary of State John Kerry spoke warmly about the notion of placing the high seas off limits. Turning this vast area of ocean into a marine protected area would be "an extraordinary step," he argued