This week marks the 50th anniversary of the US National Marine Sanctuaries Act.
The legislation became once enacted on October 23rd, 1972 in line with environmental crises akin to the Santa Barbara oil spill that centered public attention on ocean conservation. Since then, the National Marine Sanctuary Machine has grown to encompass 15 national marine sanctuaries and two marine national monuments spanning from the central Pacific at some level of to the North Atlantic, and from the Massive Lakes down to the Gulf of Mexico and the Florida Keys.
The National Marine Sanctuary Basis’s 50th anniversary’s campaign theme, “Keep Spectacular,” is a celebration of US waters to present the importance of national marine sanctuaries.
Kris Sarri, president and CEO of the National Marine Sanctuary Basis, acknowledged:
“For fifty years, our National Marine Sanctuary Machine has safeguarded species and the areas they call home, offered opportunities for research, education, recreation, and conservation, and guarded our nation’s maritime and cultural heritage. We are happy with our fragment on this work alongside our companions at [the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s] Place of job of National Marine Sanctuaries.
“The National Marine Sanctuaries Act has left a gleaming legacy of ocean and coastal conservation and is tranquil a brilliant beacon of hope for persevered development within the face of a altering planet and persevered conservation challenges.
“As we take a look at ahead to the subsequent half of century, we are able to utilize this this inflection point out get on and enhance the National Marine Sanctuaries Act by expanding our national system of protected waters with everlasting protections for biodiversity, lengthen resilience and mitigate the impacts of climate trade, and designate particular equitable get entry to to nature for all.”
John Lianghttps://www.deeperblue.com/
John Liang is the News Editor at DeeperBlue.com. He first obtained the diving malicious program whereas in High College in Cairo, Egypt, where he earned his PADI Open Water Diver certification within the Purple Sea off the Sinai Peninsula. Since then, John has dived in a volcanic lake in Guatemala, among white-tipped sharks off the Pacific Waft of Costa Rica, and assorted areas in conjunction with a pool in Las Vegas helping to interrupt the world file for the supreme underwater press conference.
