The remote islands of the Juan Fernández Archipelago are celebrating a landmark moment for ocean conservation after Gabriel Boric, President of Chile, signed a decree granting full protection to 360,000 sq km of waters surrounding the archipelago and the Nazca-Desventuradas Marine Park. Once fully implemented, the designation will bring the total fully protected area in the region to 946,571 sq km, making it the third largest fully protected marine area in the world, behind the Ross Sea and the Papahānaumokuākea Marine National Monument. Dan Crockett, Blue Marine’s Executive Director, said: “The community of Juan Fernández, president Gabriel Boric and the Chilean government are to be hugely congratulated for this legal designation. As the world advances towards 2030, fully protected areas of this scale are critically important. If every country could do what Chile has, the world would be able to effectively protect far more than 30 per cent of the ocean by 2030.”
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