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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Environment
Karen McVeigh

UN member states meet in New York to hammer out high seas treaty

School of Remora (Echeneis naucrates) and Bignose Unicornfish (Naso vlamingii) under surface of the water.
School of Remora (Echeneis naucrates) and Bignose Unicornfish (Naso vlamingii) under surface of the water. Photograph: Andrey Nekrasov

UN member states will gather in New York to hammer out a long-awaited treaty that, if agreed, will govern the planet’s last, lawless wilderness: the high seas.

Two hundred nautical miles beyond the territorial waters and jurisdiction of nations, the high seas have been treated “recklessly”, according to environmental groups.

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