The President Ivan Duqueannounced that the country will have 30% of its marine protected areas in the coming days, making Colombia the first in the Western Hemisphere to achieve this goal.
“We are not going to wait for the year 2030, a few days ago the Colombian Academy of Sciences approved four new protected areas. With this approval, in the next few days 30% of Colombia’s marine areas will be protecteds”, said the president, during his speech at the II Conference of the UN Oceans that started this Monday in Lisbon.
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Likewise, Duque defended that declaring protected areas is a way to face the “destruction” suffered by the marine biodiversity and that it also shows the fishing communities “that there may be additional sources of income.”
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