{"id":11471,"date":"2016-09-15T09:09:59","date_gmt":"2016-09-15T09:09:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/?p=11471"},"modified":"2016-09-15T10:23:53","modified_gmt":"2016-09-15T10:23:53","slug":"president-obama-is-to-declare-a-new-national-marine-monument-off-cape-cod","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/news\/president-obama-is-to-declare-a-new-national-marine-monument-off-cape-cod.html","title":{"rendered":"President Obama is to Declare a New National Marine Monument off Cape Cod"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"><strong><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; color: #000000;\">President Obama is to Declare a New National Marine Monument off Cape Cod<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000;\"><strong>President Obama is to Declare a New National Marine Monument off Cape Cod:-<\/strong> An area two-and-a-half times the size of the Grand Canyon National Park is to become the first National Maritime Monument in the United States Atlantic Ocean.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000;\">The 4,913 square mile site is rich in geological and topographical wonders, and has an abundance of marine life, reports the Washington Post.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000;\">In between expansive canyons, towering underwater mountains known as seamounts rise from the sea floor to heights of over 7,700 feet. Among the many species living in the area are deep sea corals, puffins, sharks, sea turtles, beaked whales and sperm whales.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000;\">The designation, called the Northeast Canyons and Seamounts Marine National Monument, will lie 130 miles southeast of Cape Cod. Commercial fishing as well as \u201cother extractive activities such as mining and drilling,\u201d in the protected area is to be phased out, according to a National Geographic report.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000;\">President Obama will formally announce the project on Thursday at the Our Ocean conference, a global initiative started by his administration. While previous U.S. administrations have been involved in marine conservation further afield, this will be the first time in history a national marine monument has been declared in U.S. Atlantic waters.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 8pt;\">Source:\u00a0http:\/\/time.com\/4494630\/obama-declares-national-marine-monument\/<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"fb-background-color\">\n\t\t\t  <div \n\t\t\t  \tclass = \"fb-comments\" \n\t\t\t  \tdata-href = \"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/news\/president-obama-is-to-declare-a-new-national-marine-monument-off-cape-cod.html\"\n\t\t\t  \tdata-numposts = \"10\"\n\t\t\t  \tdata-lazy = \"true\"\n\t\t\t\tdata-colorscheme = \"light\"\n\t\t\t\tdata-order-by = \"social\"\n\t\t\t\tdata-mobile=true>\n\t\t\t  <\/div><\/div>\n\t\t  <style>\n\t\t    .fb-background-color {\n\t\t\t\tbackground: #ffffff !important;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t.fb_iframe_widget_fluid_desktop iframe {\n\t\t\t    width: 630px !important;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t  <\/style>\n\t\t  ","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Obama is to Declare a New National Marine Monument off Cape Cod President Obama is to Declare a New National Marine Monument off Cape Cod:- An area two-and-a-half times the size of the Grand Canyon National Park is to become the first National Maritime Monument in the United States [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11472,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[6565,6564,6559,6563,115,6562,3299],"class_list":["post-11471","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-atlantic","tag-cape-cod","tag-conservation","tag-marine-conservation","tag-obama","tag-president-obama-is-to-declare-a-new-national-marine-monument-off-cape-cod","tag-united-states"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11471","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11471"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11471\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11472"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11471"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11471"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11471"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}