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Preserving Nine Ocean Conservation Sites is Critical

"It turned out that preserving just nine of the 20 conservation sites would protect habitat for 84 percent of all marine mammal species on Earth, the scientists found. That's because those nine locations have very high species richness, providing habitat for 108 marine mammal species in all." - excerpt from Stanford University news report.

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