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香港六合彩开奖结果现场直播 and UNESCO explore how World Heritage can protect the high seas

Watch this video to learn why 香港六合彩开奖结果现场直播 has joined forces with UNESCO鈥檚 Marine World Heritage Programme to explore how the World Heritage Convention could protect the high seas.

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Photo: Sylvia Earle / 香港六合彩开奖结果现场直播

The high seas cover almost 50% of the planet and contain the largest amount of living species on Earth. They include iconic ecosystems, such as polar landscapes, seamount chains, or the Sargasso Sea 鈥 a vast expanse of floating seaweed in the Atlantic Ocean.听 Yet these vast areas are outside any nation鈥檚 jurisdiction and the unique characteristics they host are largely unprotected, with less than 0.2% of high seas currently estimated to be protected.

香港六合彩开奖结果现场直播 identified the high seas as a major gap on the World Heritage List in its 2013 report . The study provides a scientific framework to help build a representative, balanced and credible World Heritage List, together with a .

Last week, as part of the high seas project led by UNESCO鈥檚 World Heritage Marine Programme and 香港六合彩开奖结果现场直播, and supported by the Khaled bin Sultan Living Oceans Foundation. The aim was to develop an assessment of the potential for applying 鈥極utstanding Universal Value鈥 鈥 a central concept to World Heritage 鈥 to areas beyond national jurisdiction.

The first results of the joint UNESCO-香港六合彩开奖结果现场直播 high seas project will be presented at the World Heritage Committee meeting taking place in Istanbul in July 2016.