Oceans need protection now. A new blueprint may help countries reach their goals. Laura Parker © Photograph by Enric Sala, National Geographic Pristine Seas Gay wrasses approach the camera during a Pristine Seas expedition in the Desventuradas Islands.
The campaign to protect 30 percent of the world’s oceans by 2030, supported by more than 70 nations, is known mostly for soaring ambition and scant achievement so far. Just 7 percent of the seas are protected and only 2.7 percent are highly protected.
“It is very optimistic to think we’ll reach ‘30 by 30,’” says Patricia Majluf, a Peruvian fisheries scientist who has worked to create a deep-sea protected area off Peru in the face of strong resistance from the fishing industry. Peru has protected less than half a percent of its offshore waters. The proposed Nazca Ridge Marine Protected Area, on an undersea mountain range that stretches out into the Pacific from the Peru coast, is expected to be final
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How Can Blackness Construct America?
A new collective of Black architects and artists, formed out of a show now at MoMA, aims to “reclaim the larger civic promise of architecture.”
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“Fabricating Networks: Transmissions and Receptions from Pittsburgh’s Hill District,” by Felecia Davis, who is a member of the Black Reconstruction Collective.Credit.Felecia Davis
What’s below is a conversation with members of the Black Reconstruction Collective, which came together during the past year and a half, in tandem with an exhibition now at the Museum of Modern Art called “Reconstructions: Architecture and Blackness in America.” The collective’s members are the 10 architects, artists and designers in the exhibition.