November 4, 2020
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In 2015, then-New Zealand Prime Minister John Key announced his commitment to protect the waters surrounding the Kermadec Islands by creating one of the world’s largest fully protected marine areas...For millennia, this ocean region has been pristine, but it could face threats in the future from human activity, including resource exploitation and climate change. Today, the legislation that could counter those threats and finalize this major victory...is awaiting debate in Parliament.
