Launching their draft declaration on 1 December, the traditional date for Antarctica Day, the group say they want to establish sweeping rights for the entire frozen continent, the Southern Ocean and its seabirds, seals, whales and other species.
In June, the DA suggested during a Parliament briefing that South Africa ought to investigate an idea that was rejected by top polar official Lisolomzi Fikizolo. “It has been allegations with no evidence,” he said. Antarctic governance academia have disagreed, saying the “evidence” for “prosp.
Five exceptional scholars from around the world will come to Princeton University this fall to begin a year of research, writing and collaboration as the eleventh cohort of Fung Global Fellows.
In a rare in-depth interview, Valery Lukin who executed Russia’s Antarctic interests for decades until 2017 told Our Burning Planet he did not see why Kremlin officials would object to Ukraine’s pending chairship of the Southern Ocean’s hotly contested fisheries body, meeting in Australia u.
The Antarctic Treaty’s annual meeting makes major decisions about the world’s largest climate-threatened wilderness. This year, amid war tensions, host country Germany has blocked the media from attending the entire gathering under way in Berlin. Ahead of Ukraine’s polar vessel arriving i.