24 Jun 2023

High Seas Treaty 'critical' for world's wellbeing - UN

From , 6:02 am on 24 June 2023
School of demoiselles, Poor Knights Island Marine Reserve

School of demoiselles, Poor Knights Island Marine Reserve Photo: SUPPLIED / Danica Stent, DOC

The world is another step closer to protecting 30 per cent of its oceans after the Biodiversity Beyond National Jurisdiction Treaty was adopted by the United Nations in New York. 

The agreement, more commonly known as the High Seas Treaty, gained large support from the Pacific. 

Caleb Fotheringham reports.