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French Polynesia creates world’s largest MPA
Dive Magazine
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June 18, 2025
Bora Bora, one of French Polynesia’s Society Islands, will be included in the new MPA (Photo: Shutterstock) By DIVE Staff The government of French Polynesia has announced the creation of a marine protected area (MPA) that will extend around the...
‘A chronicle of disaster foretold’: French Polynesia leader warns against deep-sea mining, urges ocean conservation
Malay Mail
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June 13, 2025
NICE (France), June 13 — French Polynesia pledged this week to create the world’s largest marine protected area to safeguard its seas — and it hopes to encourage others to lift their game. The archipelago in the far South Pacific Ocean, an...
French Polynesia Announces World’s Largest Marine Protected Area at UN Ocean Conference
EcoWatch
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June 13, 2025
A school of fish swim over a coral reef in the Gambier Islands of French Polynesia on Feb. 17, 2018. Alexis Rosenfeld / Getty Images Why you can trust us Founded in 2005 as an Ohio-based environmental newspaper, EcoWatch is a digital platform...
French Polynesia creates world’s largest marine protected area
Mongabay
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June 12, 2025
French Polynesia has announced the creation of the world’s largest marine protected area. Speaking on the first day of the United Nations Ocean Conference in France, French Polynesian President Moetai Brotherson said the MPA will cover the...
French Polynesia unveils world's largest marine protected zo...
Modern Ghana
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French Polynesia's President Moetai Brotherson on Monday announced that his country is on track to create the world's largest marine protected area (MPA). The ambitious objective, spanning nearly 23 percent of the archipelago's waters, came on the...
French Polynesia will create world’s largest Marine Protected Area
Oceanographic Magazine
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June 11, 2025
The government will create an artisanal fishing zone – collectively covering 186,000 square kilometres – that extends 15 nautical miles from the Austral, Marquesas, and Gambier islands and 30 nautical miles around the Society Islands. The...
French Polynesia Sets Aside 400,000 Square Miles of Ocean for Conservation
The Maritime Executive
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On Monday, French Polynesia announced the creation of one of the world's largest marine protected areas. The French territory has designated an area equal to 23 percent of its exclusive economic zone for conservation, free of industrial fishing -...
French Polynesia president announces huge highly protected marine area
Asia Pacific Report
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June 10, 2025
RNZ Pacific French Polynesia’s president has announced his administration will establish one of the world’s largest networks of highly protected marine areas (MPAs). The highly protected areas will safeguard 220,000 sq km of remote waters near the...
The World's Most Expensive Cruise Is Coming In 2027 With A Cost Of Up To $839,999 Per Guest
The Travel
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June 24, 2025
When you think of luxury cruises, you might imagine gourmet dining, personalized service, and sunset views from a private balcony suite. Add in a dedicated butler, fine wines on demand, and a world-spanning itinerary, and you’re getting close. But...
French Polynesia president announces highly protected marine area
RNZ
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June 9, 2025
Gambier Islands Photo: Pew Bertarelli Ocean Legacy French Polynesia's president has announced his administration will establish one of the world's largest networks of highly protected marine areas (MPAs). The highly protected areas will safeguard...
French Polynesia Just Created The World’s Largest Marine Protected Area
TIME Magazine
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June 9, 2025
French Polynesia announced the creation of the world’s largest Marine Protected Area (MPA), at the U.N. Ocean Conference in France on Monday. The MPA will cover the entirety of the country's exclusive economic zone (EEZ), almost 5 million square...
French Polynesia Creates World's Largest Marine Protected Area
AOL
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Corals on the outer slop of the lagoon in Tatakoto, a remote atoll in French Polynesia. Credit - Alexis Rosenfeld—Getty Images French Polynesia announced the creation of the world’s largest Marine Protected Area (MPA), at the U.N. Ocean Conference...
How Cruisers Can Help Solve the Derelict Boat Crisis
Cruising World
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June 24, 2025
A half-sunken sailboat—one of many derelicts that endanger ecosystems and burden local communities—lies forgotten in a remote anchorage. Courtesy Wayne Williams, S/V Hope Imagine your anchor is set in a pristine anchorage. The sails are flaked,...
Value oceans, don't plunder them, French Polynesia leader tells AFP
The Daily Sentinel - Colorado
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French Polynesia pledged this week to create the world's largest marine protected area to safeguard its seas -- and it hopes to encourage others to lift their game.The archipelago in the far South Pacific Ocean, an overseas territory of France, is...
Why the UN Ocean Conference 2025 Was Make-or-Break for Marine Protected Areas
The National Interest - Washington D.C.
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June 24, 2025
The 2025 UN Ocean Conference put Marine Protected Areas at the heart of global ocean action, but global progress hinges on whether the United States steps up to lead. From June 9–13, Nice, France, hosted the third United Nations Ocean Conference,...
The 'Population Bomb' Won't Explode. It Will Fizzle Out.
Red State
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June 24, 2025
The opinions expressed by contributors are their own and do not necessarily represent the views of RedState.com. Image credit: public domain image of French nuclear test at Fangataufa atoll in French Polynesia All of us who grew up in the '60s and...
World leaders unite against Trump’s seabed mining push, warn of turning ocean floor into ‘wild west’
Malay Mail
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June 11, 2025
NICE, France, June 11 — World leaders on Monday called for strict rules to govern deep-sea mining and warned against racing to exploit the ocean floor in a thinly veiled rebuke of US President Donald Trump. Growing anxiety over Trump’s unilateral...
The health impact of nuclear tests in French Polynesia – archive, 1981
The Guardian
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May 28, 2025
Pacific islanders agitate in the shadow of the bomb By Christopher Price 17 September 1981 A recent Canard cartoon shows Adam and Eve looking at an H-bomb. “Look, H for Hernu,” (the new Socialist defence minister), says Adam. “Yes and for Horror,...
A message from island leaders: protect the Pacific Ocean from deep-sea mining
Nature
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The Pacific Ocean’s seabed is rich in critical metals such as cobalt and nickel. Yet deep-sea mining of these materials, which are used in many technologies, threatens the region. If mining goes ahead, irreversible environmental harm, risks to...
Bird flu fallout: Industry warns of coming food shortages
Cape Business News
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May 30, 2025
South Africa’s looming food security crisis is escalating as government drags its feet in facilitating the resumption of imports from regions free of bird flu in Brazil. South Africa imports 20% of its annual poultry consumption as local producers...