Article 5AAY6 Tiny Atlantic island takes giant leap towards protecting world's oceans

Tiny Atlantic island takes giant leap towards protecting world's oceans

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Karen McVeigh
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UK overseas territory Tristan da Cunha's new marine protected area will be fourth largest sanctuary of its kind

A community of 250 people on one of the most remote inhabited islands on Earth has made a significant contribution to marine wildlife conservation by banning bottom-trawling fishing, deep-sea mining and other harmful activities from its waters.

The government of Tristan da Cunha, a volcanic archipelago in the south Atlantic and part of the UK's overseas territories, has announced that almost 700,000 sq km of its waters will become a marine protected area (MPA), the fourth largest such sanctuary in the world.

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