Marine Conservation Institute Joins NGOs, Senators and 2.5 Million Commenters in Asking Trump Administration to Protect Marine Monuments.
Over 2.5 million citizens responded to the administration’s request, the overwhelming majority of whom strongly support the national monuments.
Many commenters point out that the monuments have undergone thorough public and scientific reviews, sometimes over a period of decades across the administrations of Republican and Democratic Presidents.
Dr. Lance Morgan said, “While the unprotected ocean is like a debit account where everybody withdraws and nobody deposits, marine reserves like our Pacific marine monuments are similar to savings accounts that produce interest we can live off”, and added that, “Land and marine monuments have been established by Republican and Democratic Presidents for over one hundred years since Theodore Roosevelt created the first monument.
Scientists and a majority of the public strongly oppose undoing that legacy.” *The discrepancy between the number displayed on regulations.gov (1.3 million comments) and the coalition number (2.5 million) results from the way regulations.gov counts comments.
If we submit a petition or document signed by 100 or 100,000 people as one document, it gets counted as one comment.
Surveying the dozens of concerned organizations gathering public comments to submit to Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke reveals that over 2.5 million comments were gathered by July 10th.
When uploaded to the government site, however, each bundle displays as a single comment and undercounts the amount of public input.
### Marine Conservation Institute is a team of highly-experienced marine scientists and environmental policy advocates dedicated to saving ocean life for us and future generations.
To enhance marine protection efforts in the US and around the globe, Marine Conservation Institute also built the world’s most comprehensive online marine protected area database.
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Marine Conservation Institute Joins NGOs, Senators and 2.5 Million Commenters in Asking Trump Administration to Protect Marine Monuments
Marine Conservation Institute Joins NGOs, Senators and 2.5 Million Commenters in Asking Trump Administration to Protect Marine Monuments.
Over 2.5 million citizens responded to the administration’s request, the overwhelming majority of whom strongly support the national monuments.
Many commenters point out that the monuments have undergone thorough public and scientific reviews, sometimes over a period of decades across the administrations of Republican and Democratic Presidents.
Dr. Lance Morgan said, “While the unprotected ocean is like a debit account where everybody withdraws and nobody deposits, marine reserves like our Pacific marine monuments are similar to savings accounts that produce interest we can live off”, and added that, “Land and marine monuments have been established by Republican and Democratic Presidents for over one hundred years since Theodore Roosevelt created the first monument.
Scientists and a majority of the public strongly oppose undoing that legacy.” *The discrepancy between the number displayed on regulations.gov (1.3 million comments) and the coalition number (2.5 million) results from the way regulations.gov counts comments.
If we submit a petition or document signed by 100 or 100,000 people as one document, it gets counted as one comment.
Surveying the dozens of concerned organizations gathering public comments to submit to Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke reveals that over 2.5 million comments were gathered by July 10th.
When uploaded to the government site, however, each bundle displays as a single comment and undercounts the amount of public input.
### Marine Conservation Institute is a team of highly-experienced marine scientists and environmental policy advocates dedicated to saving ocean life for us and future generations.
To enhance marine protection efforts in the US and around the globe, Marine Conservation Institute also built the world’s most comprehensive online marine protected area database.