Obama Visiting Newly Expanded Marine Sanctuary

President Barack Obama is getting an up-close view Thursday of the world's largest sanctuary for ocean life, a week after he signed off on a massive expansion of the protected area extending northwest from the islands of Hawaii. Ahead of his visit to the Papahanaumokuakea Marine National Monument, Obama told a gathering of Pacific island nation leaders that conservation has been a key part of his presidency. "This is a hallowed site and it deserves to be treated that way and...

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