By Laura Geggel, Senior
Writer | July 22, 2018 08:03am ET
Sharks can finally breathe a sigh
of relief. Their home in Mexico's Revillagigedo National Park — North America's
largest marine protected area — is now protected by none other than the Mexican
navy, thanks in large part to a team of dedicated researchers.
This expansive upgrade didn't
happen overnight. Rather, the hard work of researchers, who spent years tagging
and tracking sharks, has
finally translated into political policy, making the park's extension a
reality.
"I'm very excited,"
James Ketchum, who helped tag the sharks while a graduate student at the University
of California, Davis, and is now the conservation director of Palagíos Kakunjá,
a nongovernmental organization for marine conservation, said in a statement
published by UC Davis. "It shows all these years of work
have been useful for something." [In
Photos: Mexico's New Ocean Reserve Protects Stunning Biodiversity]
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