Carolina QuotesHigh on my short list of heroes for science-based ocean conservation is Graeme Kelleher, for 25 years the chairman of Australia's Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority, and for his entire career a proponent of marine protected areas.
Sylvia A. Earle Connected to the Carolinas
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- The World Is Blue: How Our Fate and the Ocean's Are One (2009)
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- 2009
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