French Polynesia Islands

Patrick's brainchild is to go to Pape´ete and rent a yacht - any kind of yacht, whatever is available. We will then just move through French Polynesia - which is an area about the approximate European dimension - until it is ready to come home. It is worth mentioning here that my man, a Parisian by birth, once drove the Amazon from Iquitos to Manaus by hitchhiking, a trip of about 1,000 leagues, for which he permitted two whole wards.

Polynesia -French | The Pew Charitable Trust

French Polynesia, a French Atlantic area in the South Pacific, is the biggest coherent exclusively industrial area in the whole wide area. With 5 million km2 (1.9 million km2), the area is as large as the land mass of the European Union. This huge and wholesome water is home to 21 shark populations and an extraordinary system of 176 corals and 1,024 types of game.

Austral Islands magistrates and communes, one of the five islands of French Polynesia, have asked the Pew Bertarelli Ocean Legacy staff to work together to establish a large maritime reservation in their area. Pew Bertarelli Ocean Legacy's staff works in close collaboration with local authorities, fishers, scientists, conservation organisations and the public authorities to help French Polynesia achieve its ambition of at least 20 per cent water protection by 2020.

The area undertook in November 2013 to create large sea reserves in the waterways around the Austral Islands (1 million sq. km.) and the Marquesas Islands (700,000 sq. km.). In a joint effort, Pew Bertarelli Ocean Legacy and its associates are working on sea conservation sceneries that reflect Polynesia's tradition of civilian and cultural life.

French Polynesia hosted Pew in May 2014 to co-ordinate a multi-faceted scholarly survey of the Australasian maritime ecosystems. In 2017, the Pew Charitable Trusts and the Bertarelli Foundation merged to form the Pew Bertarelli Oceans Legacy Project. These efforts build on a ten-year period of work by both organisations to conserve the oceans.

Launched in 2006, Pew's Global Oceans Legacy campaign, working with philanthropy stakeholders, tribal groups, church leaders, civil servants and academics, has contributed to preserving obligations to protect more than 6.3 million sqkm. The Bertarelli Foundation has been working since 2010 to establish conservation areas around the world while promoting our knowledge of maritime sciences.

Pew Bertarelli Ocean Legacy's staff works in close collaboration with communities, fishers, researchers, environmental organisations and the public to help French Polynesia achieve its ambition of at least 20 per cent water protection by 2020. The area undertook in November 2013 to create large sea reserves in the waterways around the Austral Islands (1 million sq. km.) and the Marquesas Islands (700,000 sq. km.).