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2015 Is a Record Year for Ocean Protection

2015-10-23 15:26:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Washington Post: The Pacific island nation of Palaus announced Thursday that it is designating a 193,000-square-mile fully protected marine reserve that would be the sixth largest such area in the world and would help protect over a thousand species of fish and some 700 species of coral. The news is even more momentous given that plans to set aside over 1 million square miles of highly protected ocean have now been announced in 2015 alone, more than during any prior year, according to figures provided by the...

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