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Ascension Island to become marine reserve
http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-35216313Ascension Island to become marine reserve
By Roger Harrabin
BBC environment analyst
1 hour ago
The government is to create a marine reserve almost as big as the UK in the Atlantic waters of Ascension Island.
Just over half of the protected area will be closed to fishing. The fishery in the other half will be policed under a grant of £300,000 from the Louis Bacon Foundation, a charitable body.
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The latest reserve at Ascension Island is said to hold some of the largest marlin in the world, one of the largest populations of green turtles, big colonies of tropical seabirds and the island's own unique frigate bird.
The reserve totals 234,291 sq km, slightly less than the size of the United Kingdom. It could be ready for formal designation as soon as 2017, once further data has been collected and analysed.
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One of the consequences of turning anywhere over to the military is that pesticides and fertilisers are not used and that wild flowers thrive. This is from Castlemartin in Wales.
when I was in college. The Ascension supply run was a common weekend flight for the Reserves out of Charleston, SC. While the other students were stuck in the law library Saturday night I was dining on steak on an island in the Southern Hemisphere. 
The runway was a challenge:
(Who put that hill there?)
Once we watched some sea turtles laying eggs in the sand. It was in the dark, and I'll always remember the labored breathing of the mother turtle as she dug her nest. Good memories.
