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Professor of Marine Conservation at the University of Exeter and Director of the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research.

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Time to protect all the high seas from all forms of resource extraction - forever

Callum Roberts is Professor of Marine Conservation at the Centre for Ecology and Conservation, University of Exeter and Chief Scientist of the Convex Seascape Survey.

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"Not necessarily a space with swings and goals, but places where you don't have to produce, compete, buy or demonstrate anything. A bench in the square. A library. A neighborhood association." 

On 17 January, a new global treaty entered into force that finally allows countries to establish marine protected areas on the high seas—ocean regions that lie beyond the jurisdiction of any single nation.

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