Progress report for
Promoting the Creation of Highly Protected Marine Reserves
Achievement at a glance
The Government of South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands (United Kingdom) fully protected 264,000 sq. km. of waters surrounding the UK Overseas Territory located in the South Atlantic, in December 2018.Beneficiaries
South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands are considered one of the most significant ecological hot spots in the world: near pristine, uninhabited, and extremely remote, and home to seals, whales, and some of the largest aggregations of penguins on Earth.