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Conservation Congress Sets Ambitious Target to Protect Oceans

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Inter Press Service News Agency

Publication Date
2016-09-12

HONOLULU, Hawaii, Sep 10 2016 (IPS) - A major environmental conference of governments and NGOs has called on nations to set aside at least 30 percent of the world’s oceans as “highly protected” areas by 2030, but delegates said opposition from China, Japan and South Africa had seriously undermined chances of success.

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