Palau Edition
World Shared Festival Table Day leads today's complete edition for Palau.
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Official observances, world days, local context, and everyday celebrations for people who need something worth reading, sharing, or talking about today.
A day for the food, music, cleaning, decorating, travel, and welcome that turn an ordinary date into a gathering.
In 2009, Palau created the world's first shark sanctuary : 230,000 square miles of ocean where shark fishing is banned. AHA: Palau's entire exclusive economic zone is bigger than California, but its land mass is smaller than Washington, DC. This tiny nation controls more ocean than most countries, and it chose to protect the apex predator that every other nation was slaughtering for soup. A single Palauan shark is worth $1.9 million in tourism revenue over its lifetime versus $158 dead on a fishing boat. The math changed the world : more than a dozen countries followed Palau's model.
You spot the endemic Micronesian megapode bird and tropical fish species throughout the Pacific islands. You find that dogs, cats, and occasionally chickens serve as the primary pets in Micronesian communities. ACADA celebrates the world's pets, and helps assure better care.