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While Balazs served as the leader of the Marine Turtle Research Program in 2005, he launched a "show turtle aloha" campaign specifically for the Laniakea Beach located on the North Shore of Oahu. Laniakea Beach began to attract large crowds of tourists who would hover, feed, and touch the Hawaiian sea turtles.
Lanikai Beach or Kaʻōhao Beach is located in Kaʻōhao, a community in the town of Kailua and on the windward coast of Oahu, Hawaii. Although there is a widespread belief that the name Lanikai means "heavenly sea", [ 1 ] that is a misconception and a grammatical error, since in the Hawaiian language, the qualifier (lani) comes after the noun ...
The Hawaiian monk seal is an endangered species, endemic to the Hawaiian Islands.. One of the last undeveloped areas on Oahu, Turtle Bay is recognized for its rock formations, wild coastal beaches, threatened green sea turtles and endangered Hawaiian monk seal [3] habitats, whale spottings, traditional fishing areas, small local agricultural lots and Hawaiian ancestral burial grounds.
Laniakea or Laniākea may also refer to: Laniakea Supercluster, a supercluster of galaxies that includes the Milky Way; Laniākea, a building in Honolulu, see YWCA Building (Honolulu, Hawaii) "Laniakea", the tenth track from the album Mothers by British indie rock band Swim Deep; Laniākea Beach, a beach in Hawaii, see List of beaches in Hawaii
In contrast to their earth-bound relatives, tortoises, sea turtles do not have the ability to retract their heads into their shells. Their plastron, which is the bony plate making up the underside of a turtle or tortoise's shell, is comparably more reduced from other turtle species and is connected to the top part of the shell by ligaments without a hinge separating the pectoral and abdominal ...
For more than 100 years, the YWCA Laniakea has offered group exercise classes, a fitness center and access to a one-of-a-kind pool at its downtown campus. ... YWCA Oahu began offering fitness ...
Hālona Point is a tourist spot, with visitors coming for the scenery, the beach at the cove, and in the winter as a spot to go to see humpback whales or Honu turtles (Hawaiian Green Sea Turtles). [ 5 ] [ 6 ] The blowhole is perhaps the most popular rock formation of its kind found in Hawaii.
It is my hope that we can put other issues aside and agree on sea turtle rights, for the advancement of sea turtle conservation." [ 13 ] [ 14 ] Local community members, including fishermen and coast guard police, describe Yeh as a true " Haigui " or a "returning sea turtle," [ 1 ] and defer to his expertise when endangered sea turtles are ...