Exploring the Palmyra Atoll
Palmyra Atoll, a collection of tiny islands in the middle of the central Pacific Ocean, is key for some scientists looking to understand the systems that make up our natural world. Day to Day host Alex Chadwick and producer Steve Proffitt spent a week on the atoll last summer, talking with researchers working there, and learning about why this atoll, so isolated and untouched, plays such a large role in this research. Since 2000, Palmyra Atoll has been owned and managed by a private foundation, The Nature Conservancy, in partnership with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, which maintains a 12-mile no-fishing zone around the islands. The Conservancy has established a research camp on the atoll, which supports scientists who visit in groups of about a dozen at a time.
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