Wednesday 12 November 2025

Securing the last frontier: The case for Antarctic ocean protection

The celebrated natural history storyteller and ocean advocate, James Honeyborne argues for the vital importance of establishing marine protected areas across the Southern Ocean and taking a firmer stance on unchecked krill fishing in the Antarctic.

Spending years making nature documentaries like BBC’s Blue Planet II and Netflix’s Our Oceans, it’s inevitable that you become an eyewitness to the fast changes our world is facing. With crews filming across every continent and ocean, we’re seeing firsthand the chaos unfolding in Earth’s natural systems.

Read the full article at the oceanographic. 

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