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Monday, December 4
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President Clinton announced Monday "the single largest nature preserve ever established in the United States"—an 84-million-acre (34-million-hectare) zone of pristine islands and reefs to be known as the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands Coral Reef Ecosystem Reserve.
Making the announcement at the Washington, D.C., headquarters of the National Geographic Society, Clinton said the "new, vast and wonderful Yellowstone of the Sea" covers more area than Florida and Georgia combined and encompasses nearly 70 percent of America's coral reefs.
For more information:
• Bishop Museum: Northwestern Hawaiian Islands
• The Kyoto Protocol
• 9th Annual International Coral Reef Symposium
• Northwestern Hawaiian Islands
• Remarks by President Clinton on the creation of the Northwest Hawaiian Islands Coral Reef Reserve
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