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01/07/2009
Establishment of the Pacific Remote Islands Marine National Monument (White House News)
The Pacific Remote Islands area consists of Wake, Baker, Howland, and Jarvis Islands, Johnston Atoll, Kingman Reef, and Palmyra Atoll, which lie to the south and west of Hawaii. With the exception of Wake Island, these islands are administered as National Wildlife Refuges by the United States Fish and Wildlife Service of the Department of the Interior. These refuges are an important part of the ...
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01/07/2009
Bush casts wide net for marine conservation (CNN)
Nine sites in the central Pacific will be set as sanctuaries for marine life and bases of research for scientists, President Bush said Tuesday.
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01/08/2009
Bush's Marine scheme gets underway (Sky News Australia)
US President George Bush has launched the world's largest marine protection initiative in history, designating an area spanning 505,000 sq km in the Pacific Ocean as a protected region.
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01/07/2009
PHOTOS: Vast New Marine Refuge Home to Huge Crab, Coral (National Geographic)
See natural treasures to be protected in three new marine monuments announced by U.S. President Bush—world's largest land crab, giant coral, and more.
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01/06/2009
Bush to Protect Vast New Pacific Tracts (New York Times)
The action will protect vast tracts of American-controlled islands, reefs, surface waters and sea floor from fishing, mining, oil exploration and other commercial activity.
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01/07/2009
Parts of Pacific set aside for marine life (Richmond Times-Dispatch)
Nine sites in the central Pacific will be set as sanctuaries for marine life and bases of research for scientists, President Bush said Tuesday. http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/rss/cnn_us?d=41 http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/rss/cnn_us?d=50 http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/rss/cnn_us?i=Db7Esq1Q http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/rss/cnn_us?d=52 ...
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01/07/2009
Hawai'i will have role in managing Pacific's newest monuments (Honolulu Advertiser)
The selection of three Pacific areas as marine national monuments has special meaning for Hawai'i.
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01/07/2009
President protects Pacific sanctuary (Contra Costa Times)
"National monument" designation will ban oil drilling, commercial fishing and ocean-dumping in three vast areas. Bay Area scientists cheer the move, which will protect a key coral reef where researchers from Stanford and other institutions operate a lab.
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01/07/2009
Largest Marine Reserve Declared; Home to Mariana Trench (National Geographic)
The designation of nearly 200,000 square miles of pristine waters as marine monuments, including the deepest place on Earth, will be a "savings account" for the future, one conservationist says.
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01/07/2009
White House praised for safeguarding seas (Honolulu Star-Bulletin)
Environmentalists praised yesterday's announcement by the White House protecting remote island ecosystems in areas from the Northern Marianas to American Samoa.
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