The new High Seas Treaty addresses many of the governance gaps that have plagued the ocean, setting out clearer ways to conserve biodiversity in the high seas. The treaty will create a new body to manage conservation of ocean life and establish marine protected areas (MPAs) in the high seas.This historic agreement offers the global community an opportunity to protect some of the abundant marine life and ecosystems in the twothirds of the ocean. In 2020, he backed a Fauna and Flora International campaign calling for a global moratorium on deep sea mining for its impact on marine life. Sir David Frederick Attenborough is a British broadcaster, biologist, natural historian, and writer.