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from the if-Disney-owned-the-marine-park,-they-would-have-called-it-Frozen dept.
The world's biggest marine park is to be be created in the Antarctic Ocean, covering a massive 1.55 million square kilometers, after a "momentous" agreement was finally reached by 24 countries and the EU.
The deal, sealed on Friday in Hobart, Australia, after years of negotiations and with Russia dropping its long-help opposition, will see a massive US and New Zealand-backed marine protected area established in the Ross Sea.
The Commission for the Conservation of Antarctic Marine Living Resources said the Ross Sea marine park would be protected from commercial fishing for 35 years.
The marine park will cover an area roughly the size of Britain, Germany and France combined - of which 1.12 million square kilometres will be a no-fishing zone.
The sanctuary will cover more than 12 percent of the Southern Ocean, which is home to more than 10,000 species including most of the world's penguins, whales, seabirds, colossal squid and Antarctic tooth fish.
Don't kill the krill.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday October 31 2016, @02:39PM
i'm glad the animals will ostensibly be protected but i also find it troubling that governments(bands of thieves) from various nations have conspired to confiscate/horde large swathes of ocean and it's natural resources. Just like national and state parks in the US, it's just local branches of the UN stealing property for the controlling elite.Once they kill all us troublemakers off, they can relax and enjoy all their property and resources.
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Monday October 31 2016, @02:51PM
> i also find it troubling that governments(bands of thieves) from various nations have conspired to confiscate/horde large swathes of ocean and it's natural resources.
Yeah... Yours is one of those posts that although it appears to be about the nominal topic, its actually a commentary on the author's own deficiencies.