Endurance swimmer Lewis Pugh traded the ocean for New York State’s Hudson River, declaring at the end of his epic 517 kilometer journey downriver on Wednesday that “we can never become complacent when it comes to protecting the environment.”. The UN Environment Program’s (UNEP) official Patron of the Oceans, Pugh said he’d undertaken the marathon swim ending at the tip of Manhattan, to emphasize the urgent need to protect the world’s waterways ahead of the UN’s landmark High Seas Treaty and Climate Ambition Summit last week.

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