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Palau designates world’s first shark haven

Posted by Lindsey Drakert on 9/28/09 • Categorized as Asia, Environment, Science

Palau’s President Johnson Toriboing announced the designation of his country’s 230,000 square miles of ocean water a shark safe haven, according to National Geographic. His speech to the United Nations in New York City on Sept. 25 declared that no commercial fishing would be allowed in Palau’s France-sized territory, particularly the hunting of sharks.

Twitterers had plenty of positive comments about the move towards preservation of the shark population:

  1. mohan Alembath
    tahrman (Kerala, India) @jameszm The tiny island nation Palau recently formed the world’s first Shark Sanctuary worthy of emulation by others. 27 Sep 2009 from web in reply to jameszm
  2. pious cant
    piouscant (Undisclosed) Starting to really like Palua. World’s 1st shark sanctuary & now this: Palua to take 6 Uighers from Gitmo http://bit.ly/DyyPt (via @abcnews) 27 Sep 2009 from Echofon
  3. Daryl Hannah
    dhlovelife (Los Angeles, Calif.) Palau = shark sanctuary!!! YAY! http://sharksanctuary.blogspot.com/ 26 Sep 2009 from web
  4. Jen Pakiam
    jgp1030 (Washington, D.C.) Go Palau for creating the world’s 1st shark sanctuary! http://bit.ly/aIbf0 26 Sep 2009 from web
  5. Cherilyn Jose
    protectoceans (Undisclosed) Palau to create world’s first shark sanctuary http://bit.ly/2×8oyi Hopefully the 1st of many worldwide… 26 Sep 2009 from TweetDeck

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