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Nations to decide on creating vast Antarctic marine reserves
2013-07-15 16:08:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: An international commission is considering whether to designate the waters around Antarctica special marine reserves, a step campaigners say would safeguard the habitat of whales, seals and penguins and more than double the world's protected sea area. Any change in status requires a unanimous decision by the 25 members of the Commission for the Conservation of Antarctic Marine Living Resources (CCAMLR). Two members, Russia and Ukraine, have raised legal concerns, a German delegate told a media...
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