and in return agreed to ban fishing in a 123,553-acre marine protected
area for 10 years.
On Havelock Island in the Andamans near India, villagers requested
an environmental education center in exchange for creating a 2,175-
acre no-take marine reserve off a beach that Time magazine once
called the most beautiful in Asia. Leatherbacks had nested on the beach
historically but no longer appeared. The first year the reserve was
established, Silverstein reported, leatherbacks returned to nest there
and have been back every year since.
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Left: Women on Nanumea Atoll,
Tuvalu, plant mangroves.
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Healthy coral in the Red
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