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Tristan da Cunha
Tristan da Cunha
The isolated UK Overseas Territory of Tristan da Cunha, which is home to the world’s most remote human settlement, declared the largest fully protected marine reserves in the Atlantic Ocean.
What is Tristan da Cunha?
- Tristan da Cunha is a remote group of volcanic islands in the south Atlantic Ocean.
- It is the most remote inhabited archipelago in the world.
- Tristan da Cunha is a British Overseas Territory with its own constitution.
- The mountainous archipelago Tristan da Cunha is home to tens of millions of seabirds and several unique land birds.
- The island group is also home to the World Heritage Site of Gough and Inaccessible Islands, which is one of the most important seabird islands in the world
Significance of protection:
- After joining the UK’s Blue Belt Programme, it will become the largest no-take zone in the Atlantic and the fourth largest on the planet.
- This means fishing, mining and any such activities will not be allowed.
- This will close over 90 percent of their waters to harmful activities such as bottom-trawling fishing, sand extraction and deep-sea mining.
- The almost 700,000 square kilometers of the Marine Protection Zone (MPZ) is almost three times the size of the UK and will safeguard the future of seven-gill sharks, Yellow-nosed albatrosses, and rockhopper penguins
- MPZs involve the management of certain natural areas for biodiversity conservation or species protection and are created by delineating zones with permitted and non-permitted areas within that zone.
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