A New Marine Protected Area in the Marshall Islands Is Brimming With Life, Like a 'Time Machine' to Oceans Long Ago

A New Marine Protected Area in the Marshall Islands Is Brimming With Life, Like a 'Time Machine' to Oceans Long Ago

The waters around two remote atolls in the central Pacific Ocean—spanning 18,500 square miles—are now protected from fishing

Marshall Islands protects ‘pristine’ Pacific corals with first marine sanctuary

The Marshall Islands government has announced it will protect an area of the Pacific Ocean described as one of the most “remote, pristine” marine ecosystems on Earth. The 48,000-square-kilometer (18,500-square-mile) marine sanctuary covers two of the country’s northernmost uninhabited atolls, Bikar and Bokak, and the surrounding deep sea, and it is the first federal marine […]

Safeguarding reefs: Marshall Islands establishes 48,000 sq kilometres marine protected area

The country is putting two of its most remote atolls, Bikar and Bokak, under protection from fishing, covering 48,000 square kilometres - about the size of Switzerland.

Marshall Islands creates first marine sanctuary

The Republic of the Marshall Islands announced today protection of two of the country’s remote and northernmost isles, untouched havens of biodiversity sheltering the nation’s largest green turtle nesting colony and deep-sea sharks. The country’s first national marine sanctuary — which covers 48,000 square kilometers (18,500 square miles) of water — is an exceedingly rare glimpse into a pristine part of the Pacific Ocean.    The post Marshall Is…

Marshall Islands guards 'treasures' with new marine sanctuary

Marshall Islands declared on Tuesday its first national marine sanctuary, protecting a “pristine” expanse of tropical Pacific Ocean home to deep-sea sharks and green turtles. Like many Pacific islands, the low-lying Marshall Islands are highly vulnerable to climate change and rising seas, which has placed “extreme pressure” on its biodiversity, the World Bank warned in 2021. It announced Tuesday that it has banned fishing in the waters surroundi…

"It's like a glimpse of a world before people arrived" – vast marine sanctuary declared in middle of Pacific Ocean