Earth Hour 2014 Summary July 2014 | Page 15

2013 154 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. 15