Frequently caught as by-catch, sea turtles are protected in the Papahānaumokuākea Marine National Monument, where commercial fishing is prohibited. Photo by Ralph Pace/Minden Pictures
by Sprep-Admin

Stretching across the remote Northwestern Hawaiian Islands, the Papahānaumokuākea Marine National Monument protects more than 7,000 species—a quarter of them found nowhere else on the planet—in an area of island-dotted ocean spanning more than a million square kilometers. Refuge for this life came in 2006, when US President George W. Bush established the marine protected area (MPA). A decade later, President Barack Obama quadrupled the monument’s size to make it, at the time, the largest protected area in the world.

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