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Environmental champion hails rivers as 'arteries of our planet'
By UN News
Sep 14, 2023 7:02 am

Endurance swimmer Lewis Pugh traded the ocean for New York State's Hudson River, declaring at the end of his epic 517 kilometre journey downriver on Wednesday that 'we can never become complacent when it comes to protecting the environment'.

The UN Environment Programme's (UNEP) official Patron of the Oceans, Mr. Pugh explained that he'd undertaken the marathon swim ending at the tip of Manhattan, to emphasise the urgent need to protect the world's waterways ahead of the UN's landmark High Seas Treaty and Climate Ambition Summit next week.

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