Whale Watch Boat off of Maui. The whales are humpbacks.
During the years 1987-1994, working in close contact with National
Marine Fisheries Service, a large cadre of trained Earthtrust
naturalists, working under Earthtrust's "Save the Whales
International" program, gave educational lecture presentations
on whales, dolphins and the preservation of the marine ecosystem
to more than 180,000 tourists and residents in Hawaii during the
winter whale seasons aboard boats and in hotels. This enormously
popular educational program was phased out by the end of 1994
(as Earthtrust campaigns are meant to do) as other organizations
also began offering quality presentations, building on the pool
of Earthtrust-trained naturalists.
