“The spotlight is now on Australia – it must lead the nations of the world in the Antarctic Treaty’s next key step: the creation of the East Antarctic Marine Park.” Foreword When Douglas Mawson signed up as physicist on Ernest and uncompromising, the extreme cold causing frostbite, Shackleton’s 1907–09 Antarctic expedition, it was the my metal fillings to contract and drop out, and a 20% loss begi. [...] of the Antarctic – the South Orkney Islands and the Ross So often, the arrival of explorers negatively impacts Sea – but their creation is only the first step in establishing indigenous peoples and wildlife, and certainly the Antarctic marine park coverage that is urgently Antarctica’s environment suffered with the historic needed. [...] The spotlight is now on Australia working agreement that perhaps paves the way for peaceful, with the nations of the world to lead the next key step: the collaborative management of other global commons creation of the East Antarctic Marine Park. [...] More than 90% of the members of the international commission in charge of fishing and conservation in Antarctic waters support the creation of a big new marine park for the East Antarctic. [...] With over 90% amount of living tissue) on the continental shelf.8,9 The of the Southern Ocean 1–7 km deep, most remains biggest of them is the Antarctic toothfish, growing to unexplored.2 2 metres and living 50 years.10 Another is the Antarctic The mosaic of habitats created by seamounts, ridges silverfish, the most abundant open-sea fish in Antarctic and canyons, shelves and slopes, sea ice and i.
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