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01/07/2009
Bush protects unique areas across the Pacific (Environmental News Network)
President Bush on Tuesday established three new national monuments in the Pacific Ocean, setting aside for permanent protection pristine coral reefs, the world's deepest underwater canyon and marine environments teeming with tropical fish, sea turtles, manta rays and giant clams. Ranging from the seven-mile-deep Mariana Trench near Guam to the tiny Palmyra Atoll 1,000 miles south of Hawaii, the ...
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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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01/06/2009
Foto: Jim Maragos/AP (Postimees)
In this photo released by U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, pink corals is seen on the Palmyra Atoll in the Pacific in this photo, date unknown.
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01/06/2009
Ocean Conservationists Celebrate President Bush's Decision to Create Three New Marine National Monuments in the ... (PR Newswire via Yahoo! News)
President George W. Bush will make marine conservation history today when he announces strong new protections for a vast area of the central Pacific Ocean that includes nine distinct tropical coral islands and their surrounding waters, ranging from Wake Island in the west to Palmyra Atoll in the east. The three new protected areas will be called Marianas Marine National Monument, Pacific Remote ...
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01/07/2009
PHOTOS: Bush Creates Marine Monuments in Historic Effort (ABC News)
Pres. Bush protects a huge expanse of the Pacific, leaving a bright blue legacy.
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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
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
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
Bush protects unique areas across the Pacific (San Jose Mercury News)
'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 reefs where researchers from Stanford and other institutions operate a lab. Map of protected areas More green: Energy | Living
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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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| CIA - The World Factbook: United States Pacific Island Wildlife Refuges - Features map and brief descriptions of the geography, people, government, economy, communications, transportation, military and transnational issues.The Curse of Palmyra Island - Article about the aura of the islands in the light of past events and visitors' travelogues. Includes excerpts about the ownership of the island.Encyclopedia of the Nations - Palmyra Atoll - Provides information about the country's geography, people, government, economy and tourism. From Thomson Gale.IMDb - And the Sea Will Tell (1991) - Details of the TV movie about the real-life murder of Mac and Muff Graham on Palmyra Atoll.The Nature Conservancy - Palmyra Atoll - News and information about the conservation group's purchase of the atoll to study and preserve its fauna and flora. Includes timeline and illustrations.Palmyra Atoll: Rainforest of the Sea - A webcast photographic expedition to Palmyra Atoll, 1000 miles south of Hawaii. Features history and photography and video of coral reefs and Palmyra's wildlife.Palmyra Island Monthly Coral Oxygen Isotope Data - 112-year, monthly-resolved coral record, gathered by Kim Cobb and Chris Charles.Palmyra: Pacific Paradise - NPR radio feature on the atoll (July 2000, by Alex Chadwick).United States v. Fullard-Leo, 331 U.S. 256 (1947) - Supreme Court's 1947 decision rejecting the government's 1939 claim to the atoll after review of the occupany of the uninhabited island in the last hundred years.Wikipedia - Palmyra Atoll - Hyperlinked encyclopedia article covers the uninhabited US territory's history, government and politics, geography, economy, demographics, language and culture.
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