Good news among the not-so-good for nature

Conservation and efforts to lessen the effects of global warming are occurring around the world, even as our government is going backward.

So let’s focus on some good stuff. The website positive.news reports:

Two marine reserves have been created in the Mediterranean Sea after the Greek prime minister fulfilled a promise to protect 30% of the country’s waters by 2030.

The new protected areas — in the Ionian and South Aegean seas — were announced by Kyriakos Mitsotakis, who said that David Attenborough’s “Ocean” documentary had influenced his decision.

The documentary shows the devastation caused by bottom trawling, a destructive fishing practice that would be banned in all of Greece’s marine reserves by 2030.

It makes Greece the first European nation to ban bottom trawling in protec