Around 1 per cent of the ocean beyond countries’ maritime borders is currently protected.
Chile and Palau have become the first two countries to ratify a landmark UN treaty for the protection of the high seas.
On Monday, Palau became the first nation to officially approve and sanction the UN High Seas Treaty at the UN headquarters in New York.
Rebecca Hubbard, director of the High Seas Alliance, hopes that Palau “inspires other countries to redouble their efforts to ratify the Treaty without delay so that it can…



