Largest Marine Sanctuary in the Atlantic is Now a Protected 'No-Take Zone'

The archipelago Tristan da Cunha is creating the largest marine protection area in the Atlantic Ocean, covering 700,000 square kilometers of water.

Here, harmful activities like deep-sea mining and bottom-trawling fishing will be banned.

Tristan da Cunha is home to 270 island residents, as well as rare wildlife such as the Southern right whale, the broadnosed sevengill shark, the Atlantic yellow-nose albatross, the sub-Antarctic fur seal, and the northern rockhopper penguin.

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