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Rough seas in the south central Pacific Ocean. The Phoenix Island Protected Area is in the Republic of Kiribati. ![]() |
Bottlenose dolphins swim in the Indian Ocean in the Ponta Do Oro Marine Reserve, Mozambique. ![]() |
A whitetip reef shark swims over regrown coral in the Phoenix Islands Protected Area, in the Republic of Kiribati. Kiribati straddles the equator about midway between Australia and Hawaii. ![]() |
An American crocodile swims in Cuba's Gardens of the Queen National Marine Park. ![]() |
Black margates school off the reef at Hol Chan Marine Reserve, the oldest in Belize. It was created in 1987. ![]() |
A large school of horse-eye jack fish swim in the Cabo Pulmo Nature Reserve in Baja, Mexico, created in 1995. Since the coral reef there was protected, marine life has rebounded to levels seen on pristine coral reefs. ![]() |
Protected elkhorn corals, brain corals and purple sea fans at Buck Island Reef National Monument, in the U.S. Virgin Islands. ![]() |
The Seychelles' Saint Joseph Island, once a coconut plantation, is now a nature reserve with a marine protected area. ![]() |