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President Barack Obama on Friday turned to the ocean to create the largest protected area anywhere on Earth—a 583,000-square-mile arc of remote Pacific waters known for both exceptional marine life and importance to native Hawaiian culture…
Read Full Article, National Geographic (08-26-2016)
World’s Largest Single Marine Reserve Created in Pacific; National Geographic (03-18-2015)
The UK Government announced the creation of the world’s largest contiguous ocean reserve, setting aside 322,000 square miles (830,000 square kilometers) around the remote Pitcairn Islands in the South Pacific for special protection…
Chile Creates Largest Marine Reserve in the Americas; National Geographic (10-05-2015)
The newly protected waters around the Desventuradas Islands contain many marine species found nowhere else on Earth…
Mozambique creates Africa’s largest coastal marine reserve; WWF (11-09-2012)
Australia Creates World’s Largest Marine Reserve; Science Daily (11-09-2012)
The scale of the plan, which will cover more than 2.3 million square kilometers (890,000 square miles) in six marine regions, was first made public in June…
