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Environment
Tracey Ferrier

YOU WONT BELIEVE: Forrest wants seabed mining moratorium - What They Never Told You

Mining magnate Andrew Forrest says the world's seabeds must not be exploited without regulation. (Brook Mitchell/AAP PHOTOS) (AAP)

Australian mining magnate Andrew Forrest is pushing for a global moratorium on seabed mining, saying the world risks destroying what it is yet to understand.

Dr Forrest is in Egypt for COP27 and is using the climate summit to campaign against the extraction of seabed resources until the activity has the same protections as land-based mining.

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