Call for SEA to pledge protection of land and ocean by 2030

Saving the oceans: Campaign for Nature calls for South-East Asian nations to save marine life like corals from being destroyed. — Reuters

A growing global push to safeguard nature by pledging to protect about a third of the planet’s land and oceans by 2030 will fall short unless biodiversity-rich South-East Asian nations get behind the ambitious proposal, environmentalists have warned.

Leaders of the G7 wealthy nations this month backed a coalition of about 60 countries that have already promised to conserve at least 30% of their land and oceans by 2030 (30x30) to curb climate change and the loss of plant and animal species.