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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 ...
The Interior Secretary placed the Mariana Trench and Volcanic Units within the National Wildlife Refuge System, and delegated his management responsibility to the Fish and Wildlife Service. The Secretary of Commerce , through the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration , has primary management responsibility for fishery -related ...
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
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.
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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 ]
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.