Other island nations with sanctuaries also include Palau, the Maldives, Tokelau, Honduras and the Bahamas.
Can Palau envision Tecate one day advertising on baseball games on Fox or ESPN?
Palau, for instance, has just one boat patrolling for rogue fishermen in its waters.
Rock Islands Southern Lagoon (Palau) was inscribed as a mixed natural and cultural site.
The most spectacular recovery was of the bright blue damselfish found 120m down off Palau.
For 2013, the winners are Barbados, Cape Verde, Costa Rica, Ghana, Latvia, Lithuania, Mauritius, Palau, Samoa and Uruguay.
Chad, Congo, Palau, Palestine and Qatar stand to enter the World Heritage List with their first inscriptions.
Headed to Palau are the Uighurs, ethnic Chinese Muslims who were picked up in 2002 near Tora Bora.
To its credit, Palau has some of the toughest environmental laws on Earth.
The complete list for 2014 (in alphabetical order) includes the Bahamas, Barbados, Cape Verde, Chile, Dominica, Latvia, Lithuania, Mauritius, Palau and Uruguay.
Palau is a former U.S.-administered United Nations territory, so its residents can work here legally should they make the 8, 000-mile journey.
The hunger-inducing nature of the exhibition didn't prevent 650, 000 people visiting it over the course of a year at Barcelona's Palau Robert.
Malsol during the PNA's annual meeting, held earlier this month in Palau.
And then there's Palau, whose new president, Tommy Remengesau, is an environmentalist.
"Everybody agrees that there is a before and an after in gastronomy, thanks to Ferran, " said Ignasi Genoves, general director of Palau Robert.
The number of countries with sites on the List grew to 157, with the inscription of sites in Chad, Congo, Palau and Palestine.
It is hoped a deal with the Oceania National Olympic Committees, which include Fiji and Palau, will also take in the 2014 Glasgow Commonwealth Games.
Delegates represented indigenous people from Papua New Guinea, Solomon Islands, Palau, Kiribati, Tokelau, Tonga, Fiji, Vanuatu, Niue, Cook Islands, Hawai'i, Australia, Aotearoa New Zealand, and Samoa.
The president's official announcement reads like a travel brochure as he explains why he's willing to forgo the several million dollars a year Palau makes from access fees.
The United States naturally remained in Israel's corner but, alongside it, was to be found largely a small collection of diplomatic minnows including the Western Pacific Territories of Palau and Micronesia.
Six of these countries stand to have properties inscribed on the World Heritage List for the first time during the forthcoming session: Barbados, Jamaica, Micronesia, Palau, Congo, and the United Arab Emirates.
Mr Toribiong told BBC News that before going to New York for the UN General Assembly, he had planned to "state to the world that Palau will revisit its current position" on whaling.
The World Wildlife Fund offers a commercial tour in Palau, Micronesia on which snorkelers can help their guide remove the invasive crown-of-thorns starfish, which every day eat their weight in coral polyps from fragile reefs.
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Months of moral grandstanding and intense diplomacy are finally yielding dividends: President Obama has convinced Palau, a Pacific archipelago and long-standing U.S. ally, to resettle a small group of the least dangerous Guantanamo detainees.
"My position is to reconsider our current position in light of the most recent scientific data to ensure that the current position that Palau takes will not lead to the depletion and extinction of whales, " he said.
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