<
https://insideclimatenews.org/news/20102022/oceans-ahi-tuna-papahanaumokuakea-marine-national-monument/>
"Native Hawaiians cherish the thin strand of atolls stretching 1,000 miles
northwest from the archipelago’s largest islands—Hawai’i, Oahu and Maui—toward
Midway Atoll as central to their creation beliefs and representative of the
Hawaiian concept of kinship between humans and the natural world.
Research published Thursday in the journal
Science shows that protections of
the area first initiated by kūpuna—esteemed Hawaiian elders—have benefited
migrating fish and people who depend on them far from the islands.
The remote area includes just a few tiny bits of coral-ringed land with endemic
plants and birds, islets that seem to float above a vast aquamarine seascape of
submerged reefs, volcanoes and canyons that shelter abundant populations of
corals, fish, turtles and seals. Parts of it have been protected since the
early 1900s, when President Theodore Roosevelt outlawed bird hunting on some of
the islets.
In 2006, President George W. Bush designated a national marine monument, and in
2016, President Barack Obama expanded it to 580,000 square miles, an area
nearly the size of Alaska. Today, Papahānaumokuākea Marine National Monument is
one of the largest single protected areas on the planet."
Via
Future Crunch Oct 28, 2022:
<
https://futurecrunch.com/good-news-clean-water-rewilding-spain-tipping-points-clean-energy/>
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
--
mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
