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CRAWFORD, Texas — President Bush on Monday proposed protecting three remote island chains, launching a marine conservation effort that could be one of the largest in history.
Bush is considering conserving parts of the Northern Mariana Islands in the western Pacific, as well as eight islands and coral-reef atolls and surrounding waters in the central Pacific that are part of the Line Islands and American Samoa.
The archipelagos are home to a diverse array of fish, birds and other marine species that are rapidly vanishing elsewhere in the world, Bush’s memo to his Cabinet said.
