The States yesterday approved by 33 votes to three a proposition to that effect from the Environment and Public Services Committee.
Environment member Deputy Mike Taylor, acting as rapporteur, said that designating the two offshore reefs as Ramsar sites would raise Jersey’s profile in the international community and would make the Island a unique tourism destination.
Designation, he added, was the most effective way to protect the two sites’ social, cultural and ecological balance.
South-east coast Jersey already has a Ramsar site on the Island’s south-east coast, and Deputy Taylor said that there was a case for the whole of the Channel Islands to be designated.
