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Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke has recommended changes to marine national monuments including Pacific Remote Islands.Click on the link below to read the full article.

Managalas Plateau has been declared the biggest conservation area in the country to date...It had taken 32 years of hard work for the conservation area to be officially declared.Click on the link below to read the full article. 

The head of the UN Environment's Pacific Office says protecting the oceans from plastic pollution is a high priority at the current global meeting in Kenya.Click on the link below to read the full article.

A five-day series of meetings kicked off in Manila Sunday at which representatives from over 30 countries are eyeing to craft new tuna conservation measures in the western and central parts of the Pacific Ocean.Click on the link below to read the full article.

National continues push for ocean sanctuary. National MP Nick Smith has lodged a Member"s Bill to establish the 620,000km2 ocean sanctuary around the Kermadec Islands in New Zealand"s most northern islands.Click on the link below to read the full article.

The Department of Conservation is working in partnership with New Zealand"s national carrier Air New Zealand, to restore biodiversity and birdlife, and enhance the visitor experiences on New Zealand"s Great Walks.The long-term partnership has so far enabled more than 23,000 hectares of native bus

Sweeping new protections for Antarctica's Ross Sea will come into effect on Friday 1 December.

Protected areas have for centuries been a key strategy in conservation and play a major role in addressing current challenges... Periodic assessments of the world's protected area estate show steady growth over the last two decades.

Over the past decades, a number of national policies and international conventions have been implemented to promote the expansion of the world"s protected area network, leading to a diversification of protected area strategies, types and designations.

Mexico"s government has created the largest ocean reserve in North America around a Pacific archipelago regarded as its crown jewel...Fishing, mining and new hotels will be prohibited in the "biologically spectacular" Revillagigedo archipelago.Click on the link below to read the full article.