🇵🇼Palau

In Palau, where sea cucumbers are a women's fishery, local women now raise sandfish seed and farm giant clams instead of stripping the reef.

Palau closed 80 percent of its ocean territory to all fishing and extraction, creating one of the largest and strictest fully protected marine reserves on Earth.

Palau's dugong population may be the most isolated on Earth, and a Koror-based research foundation is flying drones over seagrass beds to keep it from vanishing.