Nature Conservancy Builds Research Station on Remote Palmyra Atoll
Environment News Service, November, 2005
HONOLULU, Hawaii (ENS) — --> Scientists from 10 research institutions have joined forces with The Nature Conservancy to launch a new research station on Palmyra Atoll, a tiny National Wildlife Refuge in the central Pacific. They will study climate change, disappearing coral reefs, invasive species and other global environmental threats.
Located 1,000 miles south of Hawaii and surrounded by one of the most spectacular coral reef ecosystems in the world, Palmyra offers a unique laboratory setting to develop conservation strategies that can then be used to assist threatened marine habitats around the world.
The Nature Conservancy purchased the Palmyra Atoll from the Fullard-Leo family in 2000 to protect its pristine waters and lands, which are inhabited by 125 coral...
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