Thank You Australia!
June 14, 2012
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Australia has created the world’s largest network of marine reserves and will restrict fishing and oil and gas exploration in a major step to safeguard the environment and access to food.
The area will cover 3.1 million square kilometres (1.2 million square miles) of ocean including the entire Coral Sea, and encompass a third of the island continent’s territorial waters.’
The Great Barrier Reef is one of the areas that will be protected through the marine reserve network. Photograph: Doug Steley B / Alamy/Alamy
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