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More of the planet was protected in 2015 than ever. Few noticed because it was underwater

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Washington Post

Publication Date
2015-10-23

The Pacific island nation of Palau’s announced Thursday that it is designating a 193,000-square-mile fully protected marine reserve that would be the sixth largest such area in the world and would help protect over a thousand species of fish and some 700 species of coral.

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http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/energy-environment/wp/2015/10/22/the-world-has-protected-more-of-the-ocean-this-year-than-ever-before/