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Porquerolles National Park, France – 7 June 2025
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Nice, France – 8 June 2025
2. SOUNDBITE (English) Hugo Tagholm, Executive Director of Oceana UK: ++COVERED++
“Marine-protected areas are effectively biodiversity hotspots, important ecosystems, of course for nature, but also the generators of life that can help support coastal communities around the world. So they’re vitally important and it’s vitally important that we protect them properly.”
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4. SOUNDBITE (English) Hugo Tagholm, Executive Director of Oceana UK: ++PARTIALLY COVERED++
“World leaders are gathering over the coming days to make decisions that could really help protect and restore our seas for the future. We’re expecting some big announcements from European countries on marine protected areas and particularly on stopping bottom trawling and dredging in those spaces.”
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Port-Cros, France – 7 June 2025
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6. SOUNDBITE (French) Hubert Flavigny, Manager, Mio Palmo Diving Center: ++PARTIALLY COVERED++
“Thanks to the protection that has been in place since December 1963, we can observe species that are much larger than elsewhere in the Mediterranean and at a much higher density than in other areas. That’s thanks to the work done in terms of environmental protection, fishing restrictions, and coordination of activities.”
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Nice, France – 8 June 2025
11. SOUNDBITE (English) Rebecca Hubbard, Director, High Seas Alliance: ++PARTIALLY COVERED++
“Right now we’re in the middle of a biodiversity and climate crisis and we absolutely have to protect the ocean to be able to address those crises. The high seas treaty is critical to ensuring that we can protect biodiversity in the ocean that covers half of the planet. There is no law that gives us that ability. The UN Ocean Conference has really been worked towards as a critical milestone on that pathway to getting the treaty entered into force so we’re really hoping to get as countries to ratify in the next few days to ensure the treaty can enter into force.”
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STORYLINE:
The third United Nations Ocean Conference opens Monday amid rising pressure for nations to turn decades of promises into real protection for the sea.
The weeklong summit comes as just 2.7% of the ocean is effectively protected from destructive extractive activities, according to ocean advocacy nonprofit Marine Conservation Institute. That’s far below the target agreed under the global “30×30” pledge to conserve 30% of land and sea by 2030.
Atop this year’s agenda is a diplomatic race to ratify the High Seas Treaty. Adopted in 2023, the treaty would for the first time allow nations to establish marine protected areas in international waters, which cover nearly two-thirds of the ocean and are largely ungoverned.
The ocean is critical in stabilizing Earth’s climate and sustaining life. It generates 50% of the oxygen we breathe, absorbs around 30% of carbon dioxide emissions and captures more than 90% of the excess heat caused by those emissions. Without a healthy ocean, experts warn, climate goals will remain out of reach.
While many marine protected areas struggle with enforcement, others show what real protection can achieve.
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