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Over 160,000 puffins call this place home for a few months every summer. | National Geographic History

This is Triangle Island. It is a refuge for a million nesting sea birds, over 60,000 tufted puffins, half of the world’s Cassin’s Auklet population, and the second largest Steller’s sea lion rookery in the world. Canada is proposing to protect the waters around Triangle and the other Scott Islands as a National Wildlife Area. However, this proposed designation currently allows for industrial fishing and shipping to continue within the park boundaries, setting a poor precedent for future Marine P