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Samoa has legally adopted a plan that designates 30% of its 120,000 km² ocean territory as fully protected.

The nine new MPAs are the first Samoa has created beyond its reefs, and ban activities that could harm marine life or damage marine habitat. Those fishing illegally could face fines of up to $361,400 or imprisonment. #samoa #ocean #oceans #environment #world #news

oceanographicmagazine.com/news

Oceanographic · Samoa protects 30% of its ocean with new marine spatial plan - OceanographicOn the very frontline of rising sea levels and ocean warming driven by climate change, Samoa is pioneering in its approach to ocean protection

In what experts describe as an unprecedented case, Alaska prosecutors are pursuing felony charges against 11 residents of Whittier, most of them related to one another, saying they falsely claimed U.S. citizenship when registering or trying to vote.

The defendants were all born in American Samoa, an island cluster in the South Pacific roughly halfway between Hawaii and New Zealand. It’s the only U.S. territory where residents are not automatically granted citizenship by virtue of having been born on American soil, as the Constitution dictates.

apnews.com/article/american-sa