Mad as a Marine Biologist

The Maldives has used the Rio+20 UN Conference on Sustainable Development in Brazil to announce that all 1,192 of its islands will become a marine reserve by 2017.

AFP quotes the President Mohamed Waheed as saying: “I would like to announce today Maldives will become the first country to become a marine reserve.”

“It will become the single largest marine reserve in the world. This policy will allow only sustainable and eco-friendly fishing. It will exclude deep-sea, purse-seining and other destructive techniques,” he said.

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   We had the opportunity to grow in this beautiful world and now that we have the power to preserve or destroy it, we need...

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    Cool, if they don’t succumb to rising sea levels first

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