New Caledonia expands strictly protected coverage of its swath of the Pacific

Half of Gen Zers at risk of vitamin B12 deficiency due…New Caledonia, an overseas territory of France in the Pacific, recently announced that it would highly protect 10% of its economic exclusive zone .

The government of New Caledonia recently announced that it would highly protect 10% of its ocean to safeguard ecologically important marine areas for sea turtles, sharks, dolphins, whales and seabirds. “The Natural Park of the Coral Sea is a biological and cultural sanctuary,” Giuseppe Di Carlo, director of the Pew Bertarelli Ocean Legacy Project, a group that helped orchestrate these new protections, said in a statement. “By protecting one-tenth of the park’s vibrant waters, the government has started to conserve internationally significant ecosystems, habitat for an array of unique marine life, and areas that are culturally important to New Caledonia’s local Kanak communities.

“This collaborative work was necessary so that the balance of the park was preserved,” Jeremie Katidjo Monnier, New Caledonia’s minister of the environment, said in a

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