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Thursday, 4 March 2021, 12:19 pm New research is highlighting the need for internationally-minded policies to protect albatrosses and large petrels, as they regularly fly in and out of danger on the high seas. The research, which includes New Zealand data, tracks more than 5,000 individual albatrosses and petrels from around the world and links them to areas with different protection policies. The SMC asked experts to comment on the study. Karen N. Scott, Professor of Law, University of Canterbury, comments: “This is important research that authoritatively demonstrates the significance of the high seas as an important habitat for albatrosses and petrels, ‘among the most threatened of all ....
Press Release – University of Canterbury Who is legally responsible for protecting our ice caps? Could a Polar approach to climate change strengthen political and legal responses to climate change and other human activities in both the Arctic and Antarctic regions? University of Canterbury … Who is legally responsible for protecting our ice caps? Could a Polar approach to climate change strengthen political and legal responses to climate change and other human activities in both the Arctic and Antarctic regions? University of Canterbury (UC) Law Professor Karen Scott and Professor David VanderZwaag (Dalhousie University, Canada), editors of the Polar Law Research Handbook explore these and other questions of law and policy relating to the Antarctic and Arctic in their new book, published in December 2020. ....
Who is legally responsible for protecting our ice caps? Could a Polar approach to climate change strengthen political and legal responses to climate. ....