(CN) — More than 80 countries — though not the United States, Canada, Russia and others — are now bound by a new global treaty to protect marine biodiversity in the vast ocean stretches beyond national waters.
On Jan. 17, the High Seas Treaty — formally known as the Agreement on Marine Biodiversity of Areas Beyond National Jurisdiction, or BBNJ — took effect as the United Nations’ first legal framework to conserve the marine environment in international waters and ensure benefits from scientific discoveries in the open ocean are shared among nations.
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