Cuba’s newest protected area covers 281 square miles (728 square kilometers) of vibrant mangrove forests, seagrass beds, and climate-resilient corals - plus spawning sites for several economically important species of groupers and mutton, cubera, and gray snappers Cuba has just declared Este del Archipiélago de Los Colorados (“East of Los Colorados Archipelago”), a new marine protected area. This new MPA covers about half of one of the four major archipelagos surrounding the country, and hosts exceptional marine life including Antillean manatees, American crocodiles, and critically endangered Hawksbill sea turtles. Hawksbill sea turtle. Photo: Ocean Image Bank © Gregory Piper/WCS Establishment of this new protected area is a result of years of collective effort from communities, ...
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For tourism industry it was the one of the last bastions standing, but is it now fallen! Fears have definitely emerged as the magical island nation—often dubbed as a paradise for its untouched beauty—has now seen its first case of coronavirus, almost ten months after it first originated in China. The Solomon Islands was one of the last countries left without Coronavirus. This has now changed. The Solomon Islands Prime Minister, Manasseh Sogavare has confirmed the previously COVID-19-free country has recorded its first positive case of the virus. The Solomon Islands are an archipelago of 992 tropical islands and atolls, scattered in a gentle curve. They comprise two major parallel island chains extending some 1800 kilometres from the Shortland Islands in the west to Tikopia a...
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