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Reuters
Reuters
Environment
Catarina Demony and Miguel Pereira

'Lots of talk, little action': Hundreds protest outside U.N. Ocean Conference

Activists take part in the 'Blue Climate March' outside the UN Ocean Conference in Lisbon to urge world leaders to act and protect the environment, in Lisbon, Portugal, June 29, 2022. REUTERS/Pedro Nunes

Aboriginal Australian activist Theresa Ardler travelled halfway across the world to tell leaders at the U.N. Ocean Conference in Portugal that they are failing to protect her fishing community back home.

Ardler, 50, fears the humpback whales that travel through the deep blue waters surrounding her aboriginal village of Wreck Bay, on the east coast of Australia, will suffer if authorities do not act fast enough.

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