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The seas provide half of our oxygen, and food for a billion people. Let’s give them the protection they deserve.

Our almost year-long voyage from the Arctic to the Antarctic will highlight the many threats facing the oceans

Oceans are massive and, unlike most places on land, don’t really have borders. Animals, water and (sadly) pollution all move freely beneath the waves. So can ocean sanctuaries really protect fish, whales and other marine creatures? Here are four protected areas from around the world to show how they can make a huge difference.

As governments meet at the UN to negotiate towards an historic Global Ocean Treaty, a groundbreaking study by leading marine biologists has mapped out how to protect over a third of the world’s oceans by 2030

Governments failed to agree a Antarctic Ocean Sanctuary

Negotiations for the Antarctic Ocean Sanctuary failed this time. But we have a chance to protect the ocean with a new global ocean treaty.

Thom Yorke song backing 2 million-strong campaign for largest protected area on Earth launched with 3D projection on London's Marble Arch

Petition calls for the creation of the largest protected area on Earth – a 1.8 million square kilometre Antarctic Ocean Sanctuary

Antarctic glaciers are melting faster than they're formed. Less ice and warmer seas impacts wildlife like penguins, whales and krill. But we can choose to protect the oceans and help slow climate change in the polar regions and beyond.

UK Government has backed the call for the protection of 30% of the oceans by 2030