world’s largest marine reserve

Conservationists call for UK to create world’s largest marine reserve

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Three proposed reserves in UK waters around the Pitcairn Islands in the Pacific, and Ascension Island and South Sandwich Islands in the Atlantic, would more than double the size of the world’s existing marine protected areas

National Geographic Society, the Pristine Seas Project and Davidoff Cool Water to create the world’s largest marine reserve

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Today, the ocean covers 72% of the surface of the Earth, but only 1% is protected. National Geographic, through the Pristine Seas Project, seeks to protect some of the last pristine spots of the oceans and to create marine protected areas. In 2012, the partnership kicked off with an expedition to the Pitcairn Islands in … Read more