One of the marine national monuments — Northwestern Hawaiian Islands – is the world’s largest protected marine area, as declared by President Bush last year in an effort to preserve its pristine ecosystem.
Though humans are not allowed to venture the region, boats can cut through the long stretch of atolls and coral reefs on special permits. The Native Hawaiians are also allowed to practice fishing in the region for cultural purposes – such restricted permits are perhaps the most lucrative roots of illegal trading of marine specimens.
But there is one spot in the But, 1,400-mile archipelago, there is one spot — Midway Atoll — which the officials believe should be ventured by humans, though in limited numbers. They hope that humans – otherwise, the most ecosystem-destructive animal — could do more good than harm.
The nature, till date was thankful of the American’s oblivion of the treasure in the remote island. Recently named Papahanaumokuakea, the monument is home to thousands of amazing species, perhaps, found nowhere else in the world!
And, Midway is located in the upper extreme of the island chain. You can visit the region in a three-to-five-hour plane ride from the nearest city, Honolulu.
Though the mating call-sounds of hundreds of thousands of gooney birds, or Laysan albatross, are greeting their ‘human visitors’ warmingly, they can’t even guess — what an enemy they are inviting just to find a grim future in the hands of some merciless and greedy money-makers at their lives’ cost.