The federal government and coastal First Nations took a significant step towards establishing a massive marine protected area off the West Coast of Vancouver Island on Tuesday.
The proposed Tang.ɢwan ḥačxwiqak Tsig̱is Marine Protected Area covers a 133,000-square-kilometre swath of open ocean on Canada's West Coast and harbours a unique concentration of hydrothermal vents, underwater sea mountains and rich deep-sea biodiversity hot spots found nowhere else in the world.
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