On Wednesday in Sydney, Australia, at the opening of the once-a-decade IUCN World Parks Congress, the Central African nation announced it would create a network of new marine protected areas amounting to 23 percent of its territorial waters and Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ).
Scientists believe a layer of rock deep in Earth’s mantle holds three times as much water as there is in the planet’s oceans.
On Wednesday in Sydney, Australia, at the opening of the once-a-decade IUCN World Parks Congress, the Central African nation announced it would create a network of new marine protected areas amounting to 23 percent of its territorial waters and Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ).
Scientists believe a layer of rock deep in Earth’s mantle holds three times as much water as there is in the planet’s oceans.