Phoenix Islands

Meanwhile in Kiribati, its Unesco listing led to a ban on commercial foreign fisheries operating around its Phoenix Islands. When it comes to Komodo, Unesco says recent concerns are being taken seriously. “Komodo has not been submitted to the world heritage committee,” says Douvere. “But as people do ...

So here we were on Kanton, with its 40 inhabitants, of which about half were children. It is the only inhabited island of the eight atolls that make up Kiribati's Phoenix Islands group. The residents there work for the government, which mostly consists of being a human presence, surviving on a coral atoll 1,100 ...

The island in question is Nikumaroro Island, one of the Phoenix Islands in the western Pacific ocean, hundreds of miles away from any other land, and apparently, as discovered by NYMag, boasts a 3.8 star review on Google. Currently, Nikumaroro Island boasts 48 reviews from people who have probably ...

Last year, Kiribati banned all commercial shark fishing in its huge Exclusive Economic Zone and created the Phoenix Islands Protected Area (PIPA) as a spawning ground for tuna the size of California (about 11 per cent of the EEZ). This year, a Taiwanese 'purse seiner', which uses a large wall of netting, ...

Geology Major Amelia McCarthy of Godfrey, Ill., is among the students embarked on a month-long voyage aboard the research vessel SSV Robert C. Seamans. The students and researchers from the Sea Education Association are traveling in the Phoenix Islands Protected Area. Located in the Pacific ...

“Four crossed near the Phoenix Islands,” says Tom King, TIGHAR's senior archaeologist. “Most messages were at night when the tide ... By 1938 the island was colonized as part of the Phoenix Islands Settlement Scheme, one of the British Empire's last expansions. Colonists reported finding airplane parts, ...

One of those stories is the 2008 founding of the Phoenix Islands Protected Area in the Republic of Kiribati. The area represents more than 11 percent of the country's exclusive economic zone and protects seabird nesting grounds and rare plants and fish. According to some, the reefs are so pristine that they ...

Kiribati Expands Phoenix Islands Protected Area, Creating World's Largest MPA; MPA Global Database Releases Figures: MPAs Cover Just 0.65% of Oceans. Fifteen years ago: March 2003. Building Trust, Empowering Resource Users: Efforts Underway to Educate, Encourage Participation of Fishermen in ...