Protecting Endangered Species

What would be the regime’s role in protecting Arctic waters and the associated ecosystems? First, an Arctic regime should incorporate protection for offshore feeding areas of polar bears and other endangered species. Current legal regimes fail to provide this protection. The Arctic regime can comfortably draw on precedent in the Antarctic by establishing specially protected areas in ecologically sensitive regions. Such legislative protection would be an acknowledgement by the Arctic nations that the entire food chain needs to be subject to management practices.