Gasp! Who woud had thought that countries working together would be better for conservation efforts?
The residents of Port Sundries sure did.
"The study looked at more than 28,000 distribution maps of the world's marine species and found more than 90 percent lived in or traveled through at least two political jurisdictions, with 58 percent covering more than 10 jurisdictions."
""We try to fit nature into our abstract concept of borders, for instance protecting a species in one country but those protections end as soon as it crosses into the neighboring country," she said."
It's like nature doesn't care about lines on a map or politics.
Now that the University of Queensland has spent money and research hours figuring out, what so many people already knew, let's start doing this.
Marine conservation is a global win win situation.
""For example, most sea turtle species are threatened and migrate across country borders.
"If one country has exceptional conservation protections but its neighbors are catching turtles as bycatch, increasing plastic pollution or simply hunting them, then the species can be compromised overall."
There are reasons one country may use more plastic than another but there is no reason that they shouldn't be insuring it's properly recycled/disposed.
Read the article from Phys org : https://phys.org/news/2021-09-thy-neighbour-key-ocean.html
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