Recognizing the bold commitment made by the Territorial Assembly of French territory Wallis et Futuna (led by President David Vergé) who passed a bill calling for France to conserve 100% of their maritime zone (265,000 square km) as a protected area for sustainable natural resource management. The move also called for the establishment of a 50-year moratorium on deep-sea mining. Most of the territory’s marine realm is formally classified as Ecologically and Biologically Significant under the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD), featuring a wide range of charismatic species.
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