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The Case for Adding the U.S. Territories in the Caribbean to the ABA Area

10,000 Birds

territories are Guam (pop. 160,000), American Samoa (55,000), and the Northern Mariana Islands (54,000). For example, the Endangered Species Act and Migratory Bird Treaty Act—America’s most important avian conservation laws—apply in both territories. The only other populated U.S. Both territories are also part of the U.S.