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The Leonard Lopate Show
How a Small Island in Micronesia Fights Poachers

The small island nation of Palau in Micronesia controls nearly 230,000 square miles of ocean. New York Times Polk Award-winning reporter Ian Urbina looks at how marine officers are successfully fighting poachers, super trawlers and drift nets in open water, and how their techniques may help save the world’s oceans in his article for the Sunday Magazine “Palau vs. the Poachers.”