2013
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COUNTRIES
Earth Hour saw a phenomenal increase in
support through campaign stories, outcomes
and legislative changes.
CELEBRATED
IN SPACE
MILESTONE
Fundacion Vida
Silvestre Argentina
used Earth Hour
2013 to mobilise
Argentines’ support
for a then pending
Senate Bill to create
a 3.4 million hectre
marine protected
area in the country.
In July 2013, 3.4 million hectares of sea
was protected. This raised the level of
protection of Argentina’s seas from 1%
to more than 4%.
With Russian Cosmonaut Roman
Romanenko and Astronaut Chris
Hadfield sending messages from the
International Space Station.
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