Seychelles has legally designated 30 percent of its territorial waters as marine protected areas 10 years ahead of international targets, President Danny Faure said at the signing of legal document on Thursday. Faure said that with the signature and gazetting of the legal instruments “13 new areas will be declared as protected under the National Parks and Nature Conservancy Act, totalling an area of 410,000 square kilometres.”

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The signing of legal document by the Minister Gosgrow on Thursday. (Thomas Meriton) Photo License: CC-BY