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A former park service director says leaving parks open without key staff is equivalent to leaving the Smithsonian open with priceless artefacts unattended 
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Around 15% of the world’s terrestrial area is better safeguarded by conservation measures, as well as over 7% of the world’s oceans, ensuring th
PIRatE Lab's insight:
"Fully protected" seems more aspirational than a factual statement.
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The Blue World Institute has created a mobile device application with the purpose to expand the information available about marine species in the Adriatic by increasing public participation in science-based data collection. Whether you are professionally linked to …
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Thirteen percent of the world's ocean is considered marine wilderness—crucial areas of water where biodiversity is able to flourish.
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Discussions on a United Nations treaty to safeguard the open ocean offer an opportunity for scientists.
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A look at the warty sea cucumber, the California sea hare, the blue-banded goby and other creatures that dwell in waters near to areas with federal protections under review.
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From the declaration of large marine parks to animals that are recovering after years of decline, last year wasn’t all bad news.
PIRatE Lab's insight:
Forget to see our list of the top stories:http://piratelab.org/news/top2016_pt1/
And the top enviro story of 2016: http://piratelab.org/news/top2016_pt3/
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Mexico established a new marine biosphere reserve to protect broad areas near the U.S. border.
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A new battle is pitting preservation of the Midway Atoll's vaunted military history against the protection of its wildlife.
PIRatE Lab's insight:
Wow! A story that actually focused on an protected area issue, with a focus on the history. Normally such stories are very much painted as "good guy vs. bad guy."
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Marine reserves are a big deal for overfished and ailing oceans, but, uh ... what are they exactly?
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The low-lying Pacific island nation of Kiribati has become a poster child for the threats posed by sea level rise. Now its former president, Anote Tong, is trying to raise money to save it.
PIRatE Lab's insight:
It boggles the mind why Conservation International and other large marine conservation organizations continue to see Kiribati's leadership and an entity that is reliable. Their absolute farce of their "Marine Protected Area" that was nothing but a massive paper park is well known (I've posted about this extensively before). I simply can't see how we can trust such dishonest leadership on a subject so important and so needed.
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A group is pushing to study the humpback whale population amid a season of lower-than-normal sightings.
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Due to an impasse in recent weeks between US President Donald Trump and Congress over whether to spend billions of dollars to extend the wall on the nation’s southern border, about one-quarter of the government was shut down – with no funding to conduct operations – and most employees furloughed for a period that stretched to 35 days. Finally, on 25 January, President Trump
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Advancing the effort to add California’s marine protected area network to the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) Green List o
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President Trump is repealing a controversial executive order drafted by former President Obama that was meant to protect the Great Lakes and the oceans bordering the United States.
PIRatE Lab's insight:
This is insane and a rejection of many years of consensus and steak holder engagement.
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Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke has proposed that President Trump make changes to 10 national monuments, including Bears Ears in southern Utah, according to a memo addressed to the White House.
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Americans everywhere should be outraged by this assault on our public lands. Once stripped of protections, there’s no telling what the oil and gas industry will do to them. Via Garry Rogers
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May 7, 2017 3:11 PM
The anti-nature Trump administration guided by our corrupt congress, has launched yet another attempt to enrich the fossil-fuel industry. This attempt is aimed at the nation's national monuments. And for what? We do not need the fuels. Industry administrators are simply too lazy to switch their focus to renewable energy. So, now we have to cite both sloth and greed as the human forces behind the "death-to-nature" actions of the Trumpeters.
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The developments of 2016 that will affect the health and safety of our oceans.
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Obama will use his executive authority to permanently ban new drilling off parts of the Atlantic coast and the Arctic in a bid to boost his environmental legacy.
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Today, the National Ocean Council is releasing the Nation’s first ocean plans—a historic collaboration among states, tribes, Federal agencies, and ocean stakeholders.
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The new marine protected area, expected to come into force in December 2017, will set out to protect some 600,000 square miles of the Ross Sea around Antarctica — an area more than the size of France…
PIRatE Lab's insight:
The new "biggest MPA" in the world is...Antarctica.
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Expansion of 2006 monument will protect rare corals, fish, birds and marine mammals
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