The UN's commitment to designate 30% of international waters as sanctuaries by 2030 represents a crucial step towards protecting our oceans.
The goal is to create marine sanctuaries in the high seas—international waters where all countries have a right to fish and do research—to allow species to recuperate. Only 1.2 percent of those waters are now protected. The International Union for Conservation of Nature has said that 10 percent of marine species are at risk of extinction, mostly because of overfishing and climate change.
Dr. Robert Blasiak, ocean researcher at Stockholm University, said the treaty points to an ocean that is still, in many ways, a mystery. “If you imagine a big, high-definition, widescreen TV, and if only like three or four of the pixels on that giant screen are working, that’s our knowledge of the deep ocean,” he told the
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