Sentences with phrase «first marine sanctuaries»
The island became one of the first marine sanctuaries in the Philippines, back in 1982, leading to great preservation and documentation of marine life.
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The first agreement, signed on 18 November in Havana, established a sister relationship between marine sanctuaries in the United States and Cuba.
The natural birthing room for mama harbor seals in Monterey Bay expanded, for the first time, onto Pacific Grove's popular Lovers Point beach, prompting the beach's closure in recent days.A mother and newborn seal pup were spotted on the beach early Sunday by a volunteer docent for the Monterey Bay National Marine Sanctuary, and human helpers sought to keep the legally protected marine mammals protMarine Sanctuary, and human helpers sought to keep the legally protected marine mammals protmarine mammals protected.
«I've been in this game for a lot of decades, and this is the first time I've heard of this many humpbacks coming in this far,» Mary Jane Schramm, the spokeswoman for the Greater Farallones National Marine Sanctuary, told the San Francisco Chronicle.
The Sanctuary, California Department of Fish and Wildlife, Channel Islands National Park and the Partnership for Interdisciplinary Studies of Coastal Oceans (PISCO) at the University of California, Santa Barbara sponsored a public symposium on the first five years of monitoring, enforcement and education programs for the Channel Islands Marine Protected Area Network.
She has served on the Board of Directors of the Barbareno Chumash Council from 2002 — 2006 and is the first Chumash Representative Seat on the Channel Islands National Marine Sanctuary Advisory Council 2004 -2008, 2011 to present.
The resort's leatherback turtle program is led by an on - site marine biologist, helping the property become the Caribbean's first Audubon International Gold Signature Sanctuary resort.
Admire the pristine Maui coastline as your small group paddles to its first snorkel destination of Coral Gardens, located within the Olowalu Marine Sanctuary.
Driven by overwhelming public support, Congress responded by establishing our first National Marine Sanctuary off the coast of Santa Barbara, followed later by 4 more west coast Sanctuaries.
Together, the four new monuments preserve more than one million acres.Then, in October, Obama announced the creation of the first new marine sanctuaries in 15 years.
Much of the blame for this can, of course, be attributed to lax regulations; in the U.S., the first (and last) major wave of national legislation addressing ocean and coastal conservation was enacted in the 1970s, with the enactment of the Marine Protection, Research and Sanctuaries Act (MPRSA) and Coastal Zone Management Act (CZMA), amongst others.In recent years, we've seen coastal states taking the initiative in forming regional partnerships aimed at protecting and promoting their dwindling oceanic and coastal resources.