Sentences with phrase «square mile sanctuary»

A visitor center at the 20 - square mile sanctuary features an educational jungle exhibit.

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NOAA's Office of National Marine Sanctuaries serves as the trustee for a network of underwater parks encompassing more than 600,000 square miles of marine and Great Lakes waters from Washington state to the Florida Keys, and from Lake Huron to American Samoa.

The Marshall Islands, a group of atolls in the middle of the Pacific Ocean, has legally banned all shark fishing in their waters — all 768,547 square miles of them — making it the largest shark sanctuary in the world.

While the rustic - chic interiors are sumptuous (and the property comes with an in - house chef), it's the surrounding estate, a wildlife sanctuary on 200 square miles of rugged terrain, that's a true knockout.

This exclusive sanctuary in southern Belize covers an area of around 150 square miles of tropical forest, and contains the world's only Jaguar Preserve.

The Channel Islands National Marine Sanctuary (Sanctuary) consists of an area of approximately 1,110 square nautical miles (nmi) of coastal and ocean waters, and the submerged lands thereunder, off the southern coast of California.

Thanks to the efforts of Mr. Rabinowitz Belize is home to the world's first and only Jaguar preserve — the Cockscomb Basin Wildlife Sanctuary, 150 square miles of land restricted from hunting, fishing, logging or any other kind of habitat destruction.

Channel Islands National Marine Sanctuary encompasses 1,470 square miles of the ocean environment surrounding five of the eight California Channel Islands — Anacapa, Santa Cruz, Santa Rosa, San Miguel and Santa Barbara..

The sanctuary spans approximately 1,470 square miles, extending from island shorelines to six miles offshore, and encompasses a rich diversity of marine life, habitats, and historical and cultural resources.

On Sunday, the Sea Center of the Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History will sponsor a voyage to Santa Barbara Island, a sanctuary with an area of less than 1 square mile where sea lions and elephant seals breed far from the madding crowd.

Arkaroola is a privately owned 610 square kilometre (236 square mile) wilderness sanctuary at the far northern tip of the Flinders.

The sanctuary encompasses 1,110 square nautical miles (1,470 square miles) of water from mean high tide to six nautical miles offshore of Santa Barbara, Anacapa, Santa Cruz, Santa Rosa, and San Miguel islands.

Encompassing 1,470 square miles of ocean waters, the boundaries of the Channel Islands National Marine Sanctuary extend from the mean high water line to approximately six nautical miles offshore from San Miguel, Santa Rosa, Santa Cruz, Anacapa and Santa Barbara Islands.

Within the boundaries of the 2900 square nautical miles of the sanctuary lie spectacular and unique marine resources, from the world's third largest barrier reef, extensive seagrass beds, mangrove - fringed islands, and more than 6,000 species of marine life.

«Once Mr. Harvey has finished hosting the International Costa Maya festival in San Pedro, Ambergris Caye, he can explore and experience some of the world's best scuba diving off the coast of the Placencia Peninsula or visit the world - renowned Cockscomb Basin Wildlife Sanctuary which is home to over 150 square miles of tropical rainforest that preserve some of the last endangered jungle jaguars in Central America,» said France.

Kanika Saigal writes for Quartz how threatened elephants that live in dangerous countries are deciding to migrate to safe places, like the Chobe National Park in northern Botswana — a sprawling 4,517 square mile (11,700 square kilometers) sanctuary where elephants can live their elephant lives without having to worry about being shot from a helicopter.

On May 24, the last day of the conference, Mexico agreed to set up what it called the world's largest national sanctuary for whales: a total of 1.15 million square miles of Mexican coastal waters in the Atlantic and the Pacific.

Because hunting and fishing has negatively impacted the Antarctic Ocean's fragile ecosystem, the International Whaling Commission has designated an area spanning about 31,068,560 square miles (50 million square kilometers) in the ocean as the Southern Ocean Whale Sanctuary.

The new marine sanctuary will protect 15,000 square miles and extends around the northern Galápagos islands of Darwin and Wolf, preserving the ecosystem that the local shark species rely on.

On Thursday, President Bush set aside 140,000 square miles of the Hawaiian Archipelago and created a new protected area that is hailed as the «world's largest marine sanctuary.»