Australia confident of Antarctic Marine Protected Areas approval in 2015

Thursday, November 6th 2014 - 08:02 UTC

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Australia will continue to push for Marine Protected Areas (MPAs) off East Antarctica despite the proposal not being adopted at the annual Commission for the Conservation of the Antarctic Marine Living Resources, (CCAMLR) which last month met in Hobart, Tasmania. Read full article

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GeoffWard2
I think this Antarctic agreement will only happen when the Paracel and Spratley Islands etc are officially given to China, and the Ukraine is made 'officially' Russian.
Nov 06th, 2014 - 11:59 am - Link - Report abuse 0
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Anglotino
Giving in to blackmail is not a one off event.
Nov 06th, 2014 - 12:11 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
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zathras
Look what happens when you appease dictators, they want more and more.
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Briton
yep--look at Argentina...
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Troll in The Dark
Argentina would not be binded to this agreement since we do not acknowledge the existence of the Southern Ocean anyway... so whether we support it or not is irrelevant. It is non-binding because the region it is enforceable upon does not exist under Argentine law.
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