President Bush on Thursday created the world's largest marine protected area — a group of remote Hawaiian islands that cover 84 million acres and are home to 7,000 species of birds, fish and marine mammals, at least a quarter of which are unique to Hawaii.
The national monument, about the size of California, is larger even than Australia’s Great Barrier Reef Marine Park.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/13300363/
The above is from 2006.
President Bush today will create three national monuments in the Pacific Ocean, protecting 195,000 square miles around the Northern Mariana Islands, as reported today in the Los Angeles Times and elsewhere. The monuments: Rose Atoll, the Mariana Trench and the Pacific Remote Islands.
Add this to the 145,000 square miles surrounding the Northwest Hawaiian Islands, which was protected in 2006, and you have by far the largest area set aside for protection by any political leader in the world.
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/outp...lash-pres.html
Bush has now protected more ocean habitat (333,000 square miles) than any of his predecessors.
http://www.startribune.com/opinion/c...D3aPc:_Yyc:aUU
The above is the most recent.
I don't like the guy, but he has taking a liking to the oceans it seems, he even went against the wishes of Dick Cheney with the most recent protections.