George W Bush may take the chance to leave a green legacy by creating a marine conservation area around islands such as American Samoa (Image: Wikimedia Commons/Eric Guinther)

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ONE of the George W. Bush’s final acts as US president could be to create the largest marine conservation area in the world. White House officials say that Bush is considering a proposal to turn up to 2.3 million square kilometres of tropical waters, coral reefs and remote island atolls in the Pacific Ocean into US National Monuments (see map) …