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Published online 9 January 2008 | Nature 451, 122-123 (2008) | doi:10.1038/451122a
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Conservation: Providential outcome
A winning combination of isolation, local involvement and a broad ecological remit are making the management of the seas around Colombia's San Andrés islands a model for other conservationists, reports Mark Schrope.
The locals claim that the waters around the picture-postcard Caribbean island of Old Providence come in seven shades of blue; the surrounding corals come in a far greater range of hues and colours. Just a couple of kilometres offshore and 35 metres down, for instance, you can dive to Turtle Rock, a 12-metre megalith covered in red, yellow and neon green sponges with a 1.
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