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*NEW* Rapa Nui
The Marine Protected Areas system of Rapa Nui is located on the western edge of the Salas y Gómez Ridge and covers a total surface area of approximately 729,371 km². The Multiple-Use Marine Protected Area (MPA) of Rapa Nui protects 579,368 km² and surrounds the Motu Motiro Hiva Marine Park, which spans 150,000 km². The Rapa Nui Multiple-Use MPA also includes three previously designated small coastal Multiple-Use Conservation Areas: Coral Nui Nui, Motu Tautara, and Hanga Oteo.
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Ascension Island
Ascension Island is located in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean. In 2019, all 445,000 square kilometers (171,800 square miles) of Ascension’s waters were designated as a marine protected area.
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CMAR core MPAs
Initiated in 2004, the Eastern Tropical Pacific Marine Conservation Corridor is a regional conservation and sustainable use initiative of the governments of Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador and Panama that seeks the proper management of biodiversity and marine and coastal resources through ecosystem management and the establishment of joint regional government strategies. All supported by civil society, international cooperation and non-governmental organizations, anchored in ten core MPAs in the Pacific ocean EEZs of the four countries.
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Colombia
Colombia has created and managed MPAs along its Pacific and Caribbean coasts spanning Yurupari-Malpelo Integrated Management District, where the fully protected Malpelo Sanctuary of Fauna and Flora is nested, Lomas and Colinas, Gorgona, and Cabo Manglares in the Pacific Ocean, as well as Beata and Corales de Profundidad in the Caribbean Sea.
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Costa Rica
Cocos Island National Park is a fully protected area spanning nearly 55,000 square kilometers. Bicentennial Marine Managed Area which surrounds Cocos Island National Park is 106,000 square kilometers.
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Federated States of Micronesia
Composed of 607 islands, the four states of the Federated States of Micronesia (Yap, Chuuk, Pohnpei, and Kosrae) have an exclusive economic zone of over 2.6 million square kilometers (1 million square miles).
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Fiji
Located in the South Pacific, the Republic of Fiji consists of 322 islands and has an exclusive economic zone of over 1.2 million square kilometers (460,000 square miles).
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Galapagos and Hermandad
Galápagos Marine Reserve covers 133,000 square kilometers (51,300 square miles) of Pacific Ocean off the coast of South America. The Galápagos Marine Reserve was expanded with the creation of the Hermandad Marine Reserve to cover an additional 60,000 square kilometers (23,000 square miles).
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Guyana
Guyana’s exclusive economic zone is located off the northeastern coast of South America and covers 137,000 square kilometers (52,800 square miles) of ocean.
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Maldives
The Republic of Maldives is an archipelago located in the Indian Ocean and has the seventh largest reef system in the world. Maldives has an exclusive economic zone that covers an area of nearly 1 million square kilometers (385,000 square miles).
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Mediterranean and Black Sea
The Mediterranean and Black Sea cover almost 3 million square kilometers (1.1 million square miles) of ocean between Europe and Africa.
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Niue
Niue is located in the central Pacific Ocean and the Moana Mahu marine protected area covers 40 percent of Niue’s exclusive economic zone, covering 127,000 square kilometers (49,000 square miles).
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Palau
The Republic of Palau is a group of islands located in the Western Pacific Ocean. In 2020, Palau fully protected 80% of its exclusive economic zone to form the Palau National Marine Sanctuary, representing 475,077 square kilometers (183,000 square miles), by closing these waters to all forms of extractive activities, including fishing.
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Panama
Marine protected areas in Panama total just over 98,000 square kilometers (approximately 38,000 square miles), which include Coiba National Park, a UNESCO World Heritage Site that is a coastal marine protected area off the southwest coast, and the Coiba Ridge Managed Resource Area.
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Revillagigedo
Centered on four volcanic islands south of Mexico’s Baja California peninsula, Revillagigedo National Park was created in 2017 and spans 148,000 square kilometers.
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Tristan da Cunha
Tristan da Cunha is a remote island in the South Atlantic Ocean. In 2020, the Tristan da Cunha community designated 90 percent of its 690,000 square kilometer (266,400 square mile) ocean zone for marine protection.
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