WATCHING WHALES.. .AND POOP

摘要

From November to April, hundreds of thousands of tourists flock to whale-watching excursions in the Hawai ian Islands Humpback Whale National Marine Sanctuary. Few of these visitors realize that their boats are dumping sewage directly into the sanctuary. The ocean surrounding Maui provides one of the world's most important habitats for critically endangered humpback whales. Nearly two-thirds of the entire North Pacific population migrates to Hawai i each winter for breeding, calving and nursing.