The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration is conducting five public meetings in June on Saipan, Tinian, Rota and Guam to gather information from the public on a draft management report for 82 species of corals being petitioned for listing under the Endangered Species Act in 2009.<\/p>\n
These informal meetings are an opportunity for the public to comment on the draft management report to ensure all voices have an opportunity to be heard.<\/p>\n
The draft management report is an evaluation of the management activities affecting the 82 coral species; including regulatory and conservation efforts.<\/p>\n
Meetings are being held on:
\n* Saipan on Monday, June 11, from 6pm to 9pm, at the Multipurpose Center on Beach Road in Susupe.
\n* Tinian on Tuesday, June 12, from 6pm to 9pm, at the Fleming Hotel.
\n* Rota on Thursday, June 14, from 6pm to 9pm, at the Mayor’s Office.
\n* Guam on Monday, June 18, from 6pm to 9pm, at the Hilton Hotel
\n* Guam on Wednesday, June 20, from 6pm to 9pm, at the Santa Rita Community Center.<\/p>\n
The 82 species of coral being petitioned for listing as threatened or endangered under the Endangered Species Act are reef-building species. Seven occur in the Caribbean and 75 occur in the Indo-Pacific. The 75 Indo-Pacific reef-building species occur in a total of 68 countries, including the United States and its Pacific island states and territories of Hawaii, Guam, the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands and American Samoa.\u00a0(NOAA)<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration is conducting five public meetings in June on Saipan,…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21112","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21112","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21112"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21112\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21112"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21112"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21112"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}