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Global Ocean Legacy: Marine Conservation for a New Century

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The Pew Environment Group, the conservation arm of The Pew Charitable Trusts, created the Global Ocean Legacy project to protect and conserve some of the Earth’s most important and unspoiled marine ecosystems through the establishment of very large, highly protected marine reserves, where extractive activity is not allowed.

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