At the twelfth ministerial conference of the WTO, Emmanuel Macron, host of the ocean summit in Brest, announced on Friday the extension of the national nature reserve of the French Southern Territories, which will thus become the second largest marine area. protected from the world.
With the extension of the perimeter of this reserve to all of the maritime areas of the Crozet and Kerguelen archipelagos and the Saint-Paul and Amsterdam islands, administered by the French Southern and Antarctic Lands (TAAF), this nature reserve will now cover 1, 6 million square kilometers, is it specified in the press release issued by the services of the presidency.
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