all nature has its own beauty

whitehouse:

Climate change is causing sea levels and ocean temperatures to rise. President Obama’s taking action by expanding the Pacific Remote Islands Marine National Monument and making it off-limits to development. It’s the largest marine reserve in the world.

These are photos of what we’re saving.

americasgreatoutdoors:

Secretary of the Interior Sally Jewell today applauded President Obama for his action to designate the largest marine reserve in the world to protect the pristine waters from commercial resource extraction including commercial fishing.

The proclamation expands the existing Pacific Remote Islands Marine National Monument, one of the most intact, ecologically sound marine environments in the world, to six times its current size, resulting in 370,000 square nautical miles (490,000 square miles) around these islands and atolls in the south-central Pacific Ocean. 

To learn more, click here: http://on.doi.gov/Yba0JF

Top photo: Jim Maragos - USFWS
Bottom photo: Erik Oberg/Island Conservation

(via obamawhitehouse)