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"Four Pacific-facing Latin American nations have committed to joining their
marine reserves to form one interconnected area, creating one of the world’s
richest pockets of ocean biodiversity.
Panama, Ecuador, Colombia and Costa Rica announced on Tuesday the creation of
the Eastern Tropical Pacific Marine Corridor (CMAR) initiative, which would
both join and increase the size of their protected territorial waters to create
a fishing-free corridor covering more than 500,000 sq km (200,000 sq miles) in
one of the world’s most important migratory routes for sea turtles, whales,
sharks and rays.
The move comes amid growing clamour for action to protect rare marine species
and commercial fish populations against foreign fishing fleets exploiting the
region’s rich marine biodiversity, as well as to limit illegal, under-reported
and unregulated (IUU) fishing by local fishing communities.
The president of Colombia, Iván Duque, announced an additional 160,000 sq km of
marine protected area on top of the country’s existing 120,000 sq km at Cop26
in Glasgow on Tuesday.
The day before, Ecuador’s president, Guillermo Lasso, took the first step by
announcing the expansion of the current 133,000 sq km Galápagos marine reserve
by 60,000 sq km."
Via Glyn Moody, who wrote "wow, fab; kudos to Ecuador, Colombia, Panama and
CostaRica"
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