Friday, March 18, 2011

Costa Rica creates 2.47 million acre marine park

Last week, Costa Rica's President Miranda signed a decree declaring the marine park, called 'Seamounts Marine Management Area', which is larger than Yellowstone NAtional Park, near the Cocos Islands,

The wonderful and heart lifting part of this new declaration is that Costa Rica declared a national day of pride in honour of the announcement.

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