Event Rebroadcast: The Southern Ocean—Where Sport, Diplomacy, and Marine Protected Areas Meet

Stat: Antarctica is home to more than 9,000 species found nowhere else on Earth.

Story: They include Adélie and emperor penguins that depend on the nutrient-rich waters that surround the continent. In 2016, 24 countries and the European Union created the world’s largest marine protected area—encompassing 1.9 million square miles—in the Ross Sea. In this rebroadcast of a Pew event, the former president of Costa Rica and other ocean conservationists discuss the need to give other Antarctic waters this same protection.

Related Resources

• Ross Sea Designated as World’s Largest Marine Protected Area
• In the Southern Ocean, the World’s Largest Protected Area Just Got Real
• A Network of Marine Protected Areas in the Southern Ocean
• Research and Monitoring in the World’s Largest Marine Protected Area
• Protecting Antarctica’s Southern Ocean