Tristan da Cunha-largest fully protected marine reserves in Atlantic

On November 13, 2020, the UK Overseas Territory of Tristan da Cunha declared the largest fully protected marine reserves in the Atlantic Ocean at 687,000 square kilometres.

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  • It is home to the world’s most remote human settlement.
  • This will close over 90 percent of their waters to harmful activities such as bottom-trawling fishing, sand extraction and deep-sea mining.
  • Tristan da Cunha is inhabited by less than 300 humans and it is a small chain of islands over 6,000 miles from London in the South Atlantic and the water around the islands are considered to be the richest in the world.
  • The mountainous archipelago Tristan da Cunha is home to tens of millions of seabirds and several unique land birds.
  • The island group is also home to the World Heritage Site of Gough and Inaccessible Islands, which is one of the most important seabird islands in the world.
  • UK prime minister Boris Johnson while inaugurating the marine reserve, called on other nations to join in their ambition to protect 30 per cent of the world’s ocean by 2030.

(Source: Indian Express)

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