“One Ocean” Summit: France will expand the perimeter of the nature reserve of its southern lands

PARIS (Reuters) – French President Emmanuel Macron announced on Friday the extension of the national nature reserve of the French Southern Territories, which will thus become the second largest marine protected area in the world.

With the extension of the perimeter of this reserve to all of the maritime areas of the Crozet and Kerguelen archipelagos and the Saint-Paul and Amsterdam islands, administered by the French Southern and Antarctic Lands (TAAF), this nature reserve will now cover 1, 6 million square kilometers, is it specified in the press release issued by the services of the presidency.

This announcement comes as the “One Ocean Summit”, organized as part of the French presidency of the Council of the European Union, ends this Friday in Brest (Finistère) in the presence of Emmanuel Macron and around twenty other Heads of State and Government.

(Myriam Rivet, edited by Blandine Hénault)