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Who’s defending Mariana Trench & Rose Atoll Marine Monuments?

Marine sanctuary in Pacific, 60M acres, managed by NOAA and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, designated in 2009.

The groups

No group is listed for Mariana Trench & Rose Atoll Marine Monuments yet

A group is listed here only with a source that ties it to Mariana Trench & Rose Atoll Marine Monuments: a court case, its own comment to the agency, its own page, an event on its calendar. None is held yet. That is not the same as nobody fighting.

Your group works here? Add it. Send the page on your group’s own site that says it works on Mariana Trench & Rose Atoll Marine Monuments. A person on the desk reads it before anything lists.

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The situation

What’s happening to Mariana Trench & Rose Atoll Marine Monuments

Two of the most remote and pristine protected places under American jurisdiction: the Mariana Trench Marine National Monument near the Northern Mariana Islands and the Rose Atoll Marine National Monument near American Samoa. On June 11, 2026 a presidential proclamation reopened both to commercial fishing, the first extraction rollback of these Pacific monuments. The same proclamation reopened waters around Papahanaumokuakea. Earthjustice and Pacific conservation groups have vowed to sue, arguing the president cannot strip monument protections by proclamation.

  1. 2009Mariana Trench and Rose Atoll designated as marine national monuments
  2. 2026Proclamation reopens both monuments to commercial fishingFederal Register · June 11, 2026

No public comment window is open on Mariana Trench & Rose Atoll Marine Monuments right now. A call script is ready on the Public Lands Action Network, and the groups above are how the fight gets funded and argued in the meantime.

Your move

How to stand for Mariana Trench & Rose Atoll Marine Monuments

SpeakCall your representatives

A ready call script on Mariana Trench & Rose Atoll Marine Monuments, plus any comment window as it opens.

Public Lands Action NetworkFollowWatch the map

Every threatened place in the country, tracked, with who stands for each.

Threatened Lands Map

Build my lineup around Mariana Trench & Rose Atoll Marine Monuments: a group in the fight here opens it, and the other seats are the matchmaker’s picks.

Mariana Trench & Rose Atoll Marine Monuments needs groups in the fight.

The work is theirs. The backing is yours.

Every place, state and species
Sources and methodThe situation, timeline, and threats: the MTJP threatened-lands record for Mariana Trench & Rose Atoll Marine Monuments, with per-item sources. Which groups are listed for this place: a group is listed only under a sourced fact, and each chip opens its source. Local means headquartered in the state (the group’s own site, else the legal domicile on its 990) or the place named in its mission on its latest 990. In the fight means a case over the place naming it (the court docket), its own comment on a decision about the place (regulations.gov), an editors’ link with its source or its own page approved by a person here, or events on its own calendar held at the place. No fact, no listing. Org-reported figures are always labeled. Data verified as of 2026-09-28. No group pays to be listed on this page or for where it sits.