Surpassing Australia's Great Barrier Reef, the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands (NWHI) will form part of a 140,000-square-mile (362,580-square-kilometer) protected area nearly the size of California.

The announcement was made in June 2006 by U.S. President George W. Bush, who has designated the wildlife-rich islands and surrounding seas a national monument.
 
The move follows a long campaign by Hawaiians and conservation groups for federal protection of the NWHI, a 1,200-mile-long (1,930-kilometer-long) chain of islands, atolls, and coral reefs.

The region is home to more than 7,000 marine species, about a quarter of which are found nowhere else on Earth.
 
The islands are also a breeding site for millions of seabirds and endangered animals, including the Hawaiian monk seal—one of the world's rarest marine mammals—and the Hawaiian green sea turtle.

Art for Conservation^TM Commitment Goal:
$820.00 US.

Northwestern Hawaiian Islands Marine National Monument has been indicated by AFC members as a potential recipient of donations by participating artists. AFC's Art for Conservation^TM program, provides a forum to promote artwork that benefits recognized conservation organizations such as Northwestern Hawaiian Islands Marine National Monument.

AFC members have voluntarily and independently earmarked a portion of the proceeds from the sale of their artwork to Northwestern Hawaiian Islands Marine National Monument. AFC's Art for Conservation^TM program provides a forum to help promote artwork for sale that includes such a commitment. Each artists's commitment is contingent on the sale of their work and the above estimate is a potential total based on the completion of sale of any original work and/or limited editions. The AFC is not involved in any way with artwork sales transactions, nor does it make any guarantees relating to artist commitments. The AFC takes no commission whatsoever from the sale of artwork under the Art for Conservation^TM program, unless explicitly indicated.

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