US President Joe Biden has designated a large swathe of land near the Grand Canyon as a national monument, fulfilling a years-old push by environmentalists and Indigenous communities to preserve the area.
The Ancestral Footprints of the Grand Canyon National Monument – Baaj Nwaavjo I’tah Kukveni – will conserve more than 404,000 hectares (one million acres) of public lands around Grand Canyon National Park in the state of Arizona, the White House said on Tuesday.
