{"id":345401,"date":"2021-06-03T06:00:28","date_gmt":"2021-06-02T20:00:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=345401"},"modified":"2021-06-03T06:00:28","modified_gmt":"2021-06-02T20:00:28","slug":"babauta-to-speak-at-capitol-hill-ocean-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/babauta-to-speak-at-capitol-hill-ocean-week\/","title":{"rendered":"Babauta to speak at Capitol Hill Ocean Week"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_345402\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-345402\" style=\"width: 225px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Sheila-Babauta.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-345402\" src=\"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Sheila-Babauta-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-345402\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sheila Babauta<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Friends of the Mariana Trench said yesterday that board chair and Precinct 4 Rep. Sheila Babauta (D-Saipan) will be representing the CNMI as a speaker for Capitol Hill Ocean Week in Washington, D.C.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are part of the Pacific [and therefore in] any conversations happening around ocean health, ocean sustainability, ocean recovery,\u201d said Babauta, \u201cThese are conversations we really need to be a part of because we have such an intimate connection with the ocean.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>CHOW is an annual conference in Washington, D.C. that has been convening members of Congress, administration officials, state and local governments, scientists, scholars, business executives, nonprofit leaders, and the public for an annual dialogue on ocean science, policy, and conservation for the past 20 years.<\/p>\n<p>According to organizers, \u201cCHOW 2021 will focus on building a more racially equitable and just movement for our ocean and Great Lakes. \u2026This year\u2019s conference is an opportunity to examine how systemic racism negatively impacts conservation, science, and policy, and how strengthening justice, equity, diversity, and inclusion will improve the sustainability of our ocean, coasts, Great Lakes, and the communities that depend on them.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Babauta will represent the CNMI on a panel titled \u201cStrengthening Resource and Climate Change Engagement in the U.S. Territories.\u201d Delegate Gregorio Kilili C. Sablan will also offer opening remarks at this year\u2019s virtual session.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am very excited about the invitation from the National Marine Sanctuary Foundation,\u201d Babauta said about the event. \u201cI am looking forward to engaging in dialogue about how we can better protect our oceans and really share our experience and our relationship with the ocean here in the CNMI.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The panel will also feature representatives from the other U.S. territories: Guam, Puerto Rico, American Samoa, and the U.S. Virgin Islands. (PR)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Friends of the Mariana Trench said yesterday that board chair and Precinct 4 Rep. Sheila&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":28,"featured_media":345403,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-345401","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/345401","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\/28"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=345401"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/345401\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/345403"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=345401"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=345401"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=345401"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}