More than 150 countries have agreed to a treaty that will offer the tools to protect marine life in international waters.
International waters, also known as the high seas, make up about two thirds of the ocean, and cover around half of the planet’s surface. It includes all of the ocean that exists 200 nautical miles away or more from any coast.
“We haven't had the tools and mechanisms that we need to really effectively protect and conserve these places,” said Nichola Clark, an officer on the Ocean Governance Team at Pew Charitable Trusts.Under the treaty, there will be legal tools to help protect biodiversity, including the ability to create and manage marine protected areas.
“That’s what this treaty offers is a chance to do that, to really ensure that we are able to protect our full interconnected ecosystem on the oceans from coasts to high seas,” she said.“I like to use an example of leatherback turtles. Turtles that spend most of their life actually in the high seas and international waters, but they have to come back to shore to nest,” Clark said.
“Protecting just their nesting areas on the coasts isn't enough. We actually have to protect them where they spend most of their lives,” she said.“They've agreed on the text, the treaty text itself, which is the biggest hurdle. They’ll still have to do a couple things before it's up and running.
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