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The Funafuti Conservation Area is a marine conservation area created in 1999 that covers 33 square kilometers (12.74 square miles) of ocean, reef, lagoon and motu (islets) on the western side of Funafuti atoll, south of Tepuka islet (highlighted on photo).

The islets are nesting sites for the green sea turtle (Chelonia mydas) and Fualopa islet hosts a breeding colony of black noddy (Anous minutus). The boundaries of the Funafuti Conservation Area encompass about 20 percent of the total coral reef area of Funafuti lagoon and 40% of the remaining native broadleaf forest. (More...)