Global Warming News: Antarctic Sea Declared As The World's Largest Marine Protected Area

Climate change is being fought by different countries globally. Each country is doing their part in minimizing the global warming. Even the animals living in the oceans and seas are being fought. Currently, it has been declared that Antarctic sea will be protected and accounted as a marine reserve. 

Antarctic bay, home of the killer whales and penguins became the world's largest marine protected area last Friday. The body of the United Nations declared this at a meeting in Hobart, Tasmania after five years of negotiating.

WWF Australia Ocean Science Manager Chris Johnson told CNN, "It's near pristine and how many near pristine parts of the ocean do we have left on the planet?"

The European Union, together with the twenty-four nations under it agreed unanimously to declare the Ross Sea in Antarctica as an official Marine Protected Area. After the negotiations brokered by the UN's Commission for the Conservation of Antarctic Marine Living Resources.

The United Nations reported that 50% of ecotype-C killer whales (the smallest of the four types of Southern Hemisphere orcas), 40% of Adelie penguins and 25% of emperor penguins live in the area covered by the new park, according to BBC News.

David Ainley, a scientist from the United States also one of the first to call for the area to be protected, said in a statement that, "The data collected from this 'living laboratory' helps us understand the significant changes taking place on Earth right now. "

However, not everyone will be happy with this agreement because the experts do not want the agreement to become a precedent for other marine protected areas in the Southern Ocean. Enable to declare the new marine park, every country should be involved and must agree on a complete consensus.

Chris Johnson said that  this has been a long, ongoing, challenging debate and I believe this one of the compromises in terms of getting that 100% consensus. The WWF would be working hard to make the Ross Sea, a permanently protected area.