Chile Adds Massive Ocean Sanctuaries To Growing Global List
“World famous for a Moai statues, Easter Island will now be famous as a tellurian personality in sea conservation
The proposed park aims to strengthen opposite bootleg fishing and guarantee a biodiversity of a island’s waters, that are home to 142 autochthonous species, 27 of that are threatened or endangered, according to Pew.
“The sea is a basement of a enlightenment and a livelihood,” Pedro Edmunds Paoa, Easter Island’s mayor, pronounced in a statement. “The Rapa Nui village is immensely unapproachable of this sea park, that will strengthen a waters for generations to come.”
U.S. President Barack Obama is removing in on a fun, too.
During the Our Oceans conference, Obama announced around a video messagefirst inhabitant sea sanctuaries determined in a past 15 years
Last year, Obama drastically stretched a Pacific Remote Islands Marine National Monument
Take a debate of a proposed Easter Island Marine Park below: