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OUR MAJESTIC WILD PLACES, SPECIES AND WONDERS

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Colorful honeycreepers at Hakalau Forest National Wildlife Refuge (NWR), monitor lizards and Mariana fruit bats in Guam NWR, and millions of Laysan and Black-footed albatross in Hawaiʻi - from James Campbell NWR to Midway Atoll NWR. 

Conserving fish, wildlife, and their habitats includes honoring their role in our shared history and cultures. Traditional knowledge and cultural practices are an integral aspect of the PIRAMO’s conservation efforts; we foster and value ongoing and new collaborations and partnerships with indigenous and local communities and people, as well as those of non-governmental organizations, state/territorial governments and other federal agencies.��

Among the Hawaiian Islands, Refuges help protect a myriad of endangered forest birds and water birds that are found only in Hawai’i; hundreds of the rarest plants, snails, and invertebrates; majestic seabirds; and ecosystems found nowhere else in the planet. Kīlauea Point NWR and Hanalei NWR on Kauaʻi, and Kēalia Pond on Maui protect acrobatic seabirds and endemic, endangered water birds while also welcoming the public to participate in conservation.

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Together, these Refuges offer opportunities to half a million people a year to visit or overlook unparalleled Hawaiian vistas of native habitat and wildlife. Visitors can experience spectacular wildlife and Native Hawaiian cultural connections at Hakalau Forest, James Campbell, and Pearl Harbor National Wildlife Refuges through specially-guided tours or volunteer programs during certain times of the year.  Partners in conservation and community connections are a big part of all PIRAMO Refuges, and especially in Hawai’i. Learn more about them in the links below.

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On the Guam National Wildlife Refuge in the western Pacific, visitors and wildlife find some of the island’s last remaining native limestone, coastal forests, and coral reefs teeming with life along Ritidian (Litekyan) Beach. Native habitats, endangered species, and historic latte stones and other remnants of Guam’s history are protected across the Refuge. Visitors seek out the beauty and tranquility provided and enjoy seeing and learning about wildlife. The Guam National Wildlife Refuge is a vital link between Guam’s (Guåhan) cultural and natural heritage, and a vibrant place where nature holds promise for future generations.

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The four Marine National Monuments protect over 1.1 million square miles of public lands and waters, are home to more than 28 million seabirds, and their islands, coral atolls, and pristine waters represent some of the last frontiers and havens for wildlife in the world. Together, with twelve national wildlife refuges at their cores, the Marine Monuments comprise the most widespread collection of marine protection under a single nation's jurisdiction.

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Papahānaumokuākea Marine National Monument is the largest contiguous fully protected�� conservation area conservation area
A conservation area or wildlife management area is a type of national wildlife refuge that consists primarily or entirely of conservation easements on private lands. These conservation easements support private landowner efforts to protect important habitat for fish and wildlife. There are 15 conservation areas and nine wildlife management areas in the National Wildlife Refuge System.

Learn more about conservation area  in the United States. The Pacific Islands Heritage Marine National Monument encompasses approximately 490,000 square miles of open ocean, coral reef, and island habitats, making the total area of the Monument nearly five times the size of all the U.S. National Parks combined and nearly twice the size of the state of Texas. Rose Atoll Marine National Monument in American Samoa provides safe shelter and nesting grounds for threatened and endangered sea turtles and is the largest collection of seabird nesting in American Samoa. The Mariana Trench Marine National Monument contains the deepest place on Earth, deeper than the height of Mount Everest above sea-level, is five times longer than the Grand Canyon; at its depths the Trench contains pools of molten sulfur, which is unique on this planet and heretofore only known to exist on Jupiter’s innermost moon.

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