Mongabay Reports: What's in the new U.N. High Seas treaty?
More than 15 years in the making, the United Nations has finally reached an agreement on a landmark, legally binding treaty to protect international waters, where a myriad of wildlife big and small live.
Why did it take so long, and what happens next?
Hear all about it by listening to this audio reading of the popular article by Elizabeth Fitt:\xa0
As U.N. members clinch historic high seas biodiversity treaty, what\u2019s in it?
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Image caption: A humpback whale in Antarctica. Image by Christopher Michel via Flickr (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0).
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