Why is it important to educate visitors to Hawaii?
A. With more than two million people coming to Maui each year — many interacting with the marine environment for the first tiime — there’s an urgent need to give visitors the information they need to understand and protect our island’s fragile tidepools, coral reefs and endangered species. To educate visitors, Pacific Whale Foundation offers a free onsite coral reef naturalist program at popular shoreline snorkeling beaches and a free “whale “information station” at McGregor Point lookout on Maui. We also offered a free multimedia presentation, “Why Whales Do That!” and free exhibits about whales at our Discovery Center and publish free wildlife watching guides for the public. We hope that visitors who experience the ocean here will become stronger advocates for ocean stewardship and conservation when they return home. Here’s an interesting fact: If Pacific Whale Foundation vanished, all of the boats and equipment owned by Pacific Whale Foundation Eco-Adventures would have to be GIVE
