Antarctica’s Ross Sea will become home to the world’s largest marine protected area

Antarctica’s Ross Sea will become home to the world’s largest marine protected area –

At a meeting of the Commission for the Conservation of of Antarctic Marine Living Resources, delegates from 24 countries and the European Union officially moved to protect a 600,000-square-mile region of the Southern Ocean. The Ross Sea may make up just 2 percent of that ocean, but it’s home to 38 percent of the world’s Adelie penguins, 30 percent of Antarctic petrels, and 6 percent of Antarctic minke whales. BBC