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The Guam National Wildlife Refuge is composed of three units: the Andersen Air Force Base Overlay Unit (Air Force Overlay Unit), the Navy Overlay Unit, and the Ritidian Unit. The Ritidian Unit, known to the native CHamoru people as Puntan Litekyan, is located on the northern tip of Guam and encompasses approximately 1,217 acres, including 385 ...
Guam National Wildlife Refuge: Guam GU 1993 1,203 acres (4.87 km 2) [109] Hakalau Forest National Wildlife Refuge: Island of Hawaiʻi: HI 1985 38,047 acres (153.97 km 2) [110] Hanalei National Wildlife Refuge: Island of Kauaʻi: HI 1972 917 acres (3.71 km 2) [111] Hawaiian Islands National Wildlife Refuge: Hawaiʻi HI 1909 245,000 acres (990 km ...
A federal Guam National Wildlife Refuge in northern Guam protects the decimated sea turtle population in addition to a small colony of Mariana fruit bats. [73] Harvest of sea turtle eggs was a common occurrence on Guam before World War II.
The Mariana Arc of Fire National Wildlife Refuge (Volcanic Unit) – an arc of 21 undersea mud volcanoes and thermal vents – supports unusual life forms in some of the harshest conditions imaginable. Here species survive in the midst of hydrothermal vents that produce highly acidic boiling water.
Guam National Wildlife Refuge (4.93 km 2), established in 1993, protects a portion of Guam's northern coast. Bolanos Conservation Area (12 km 2) on southern Guam; Asuncion Island Preserve (7.29 km 2) on Asuncion Island; Guguan Island Preserve (4.24 km 2) on Guguan; Sabana Protected Area (15.21 km 2) on Rota
Protected areas of Guam — a U.S. territory in the Micronesia region of the Pacific Ocean and Oceania. Subcategories This category has the following 2 subcategories, out of 2 total.
Despite translocations from Rota to the Guam National Wildlife Refuge in the late 1990s and early 2000s, by 2011 the Mariana Crow was extirpated from Guam. [5] Current conservation efforts on Rota include habitat protection, [ 6 ] and a captive rear-and-release program. [ 7 ]
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