Launch of a major ocean campaign for small island States in the Pacific

Expanding the number and size of marine protected areas to try to save the ocean... This is the goal of Enric Sala, a Spanish oceanographer, trained in France at the University of Aix-Marseille, and former professor at the Scripps Institute of Oceanography in San Diego (United States). On 24 May, the crew on board the Argo vessel began their first exploratory dive in Kiribati's Line Islands archipelago. This is the first stop in a new five-year expedition to the tropical Pacific Ocean. "Each year, we will visit at least four countries and conduct scientific expeditions in connection with the governments and indigenous peoples of the countries concerned who will host us," explains the explorer.

For the first year, after Kiribati, the Argo is to head south to Penrhyn, an atoll in the Cook Islands, northwest of French Polynesia. Then the scientific ship should go to Niue, the Marshall Islands, in...

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