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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 ...
Guam National Wildlife Refuge beach at Ritidian Point. Guam has a tropical rainforest climate on the Köppen scale (Köppen Af). Its driest month of March almost qualifies as a tropical monsoon climate (Köppen Am). The weather is generally hot and humid throughout the year with little seasonal temperature variation.
Twenty-one species found across 16 states and in the U.S. territory of Guam are officially extinct, federal wildlife officials declared on Oct. 16. ... a national U.S. nonprofit wildlife ...
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]
The FWS assumed management of the Midway Atoll National Wildlife Refuge. The last contingent of Navy personnel left Midway on June 30, 1997, after an ambitious environmental cleanup program was completed. On September 13, 2000, Secretary of the Interior Bruce Babbitt designated the Wildlife Refuge as the Battle of Midway National Memorial. [48]
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
Yigo, Guam (Chamorro: Yigu; pronounced / ˈ dʒ iː ɡ oʊ /) is the northernmost village of the United States territory of Guam, and is the location of Andersen Air Force Base. The municipality of Yigo is the largest village on the island in terms of area. It contains a number of populated places, including Asatdas and Agafo Gumas.