Announcement: Chile Creates Enormous Ocean Preserve | National Geographic

that has been to Radha’s islands are one
of the most extraordinary places in the
ocean populations of giant lobsters
abandoned populations of fish small
population of the threatened Juan
Fernandez first this is a place so
unique that if it went away there will
be nothing left on our planet
what we’re doing is trying to protect
our ocean by concrete measures not by
words and the first thing that we have
decided is to present to the world and
to our nation new marine protected areas
the one around the Desmond Torre’s
island is a major endeavor
300,000 square kilometers
most of the ocean is unprotected which
is like a bank account where everybody
withdraws but nobody makes the marine
protected areas are areas that we set
aside like a savings account with the
principal that produces interest
actually that is you know future for
fishing without marine protected areas
in addition to protecting the marine
life with needs boundaries this new
marine part which also help to replenish
the populations of commercial fishes
that are caught by the Chilean fish
industry
I think that Chile has a leadership role
and we have been pleased and we’ll take
it up we have such a long coast so that
our future depends on the conservation
of the ocean we’re assuming our
responsibility we are responsibilities
with the present generations and the one
that would come out