Publication Name
La Tercera
Author(s)
A. Krebs & F. Rodríguez
In 2005, the George W. Bush administration created a large marine protection reserve in Hawaii. It is almost as large as the state of California and at the time it was the largest in the world.
Among those involved in the initiative was the Pew Environment Group, one of the leading conservation organizations in the world, which started to make an old aspiration into a reality: to create of complex network of protected marine areas around the world. The goal is to establish 15 of them by 2022, a project they named Global Ocean Legacy.
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Global Ocean Legacy has already inaugurated three of the 22 parks proposed. The protected area in the Mariana Islands, which has the deepest trench in the ocean, was added to the one in Hawaii in 2009 and in 2010 the conservation plan for the Chagos Archipelago in the Indian Ocean was created. And the Coral Sea, in Australia, will be the fourth. If the negotiations between the government, the inhabitants of Easter Island and the NGOs succeed, Easter Island might be the fifth.
Read the full article, Project Seeks to Create the Largest Marine Reserve in the World on Easter Island, on the La Tercera website (in Spanish).
