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: -1, Offtopic) by Anonymous Coward on Monday October 31 2016, @03:06PM
There isn't any!
Go on, try to find it. You will not, because it does not exist. It does not exist, because the Earth is not a globe, and this is the one fact the globe spinners cannot hide.
The precious footage that would demonstrate the 24h Sun is missing. "We have no space in our servers", was the official answer, "so our IT has a script that deletes frames that are all black" (black? Under a 24h Sun? hmmm .. )
Antarctica is not a continent: Antarctica is an ice wall that surrounds and contains the oceans of the Earth.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday October 31 2016, @05:03PM
You want to be close to the South Pole, around 21st June. Or rather, I want you to be.