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"Science can make us smarter," says Hanohano Na'ehu, of Keawanui Fishpond in Molokai, Hawai'i, "but we believe native intelligence can make science smarter also." That kind of collaboration is one of the many things that makes Hawaiian Islands Humpback Whale National Marine Sanctuary such a special place. #EarthIsBlue

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It's very significant that science with Hawaiian Islands Humpback Whale Sanctuary plays a big, big role with culture and science partnerships.

For preservation, perpetuation education, if you find out the wrongful thing, you make the correct thing.

These are all our sanctuary waters that surround the island of Lana'i. So, within the sanctuary are many, many story places that are tied to the culture of the people that are living here.

We must care for this place and the stories must be cared for, the resources must be cared for, and now we have responsibility as a sanctuary to look at these waters.

I've been in the water here since 1965 alive. And when I first got here, it was live off the land kind of thing. I went out there with my spear every day and I watched stuff go down hill and down hill and down hill. And at some point in time, I just said, you know this - it's more fun to see a fish than to go kill it!

This is, you know, the one place in the whole galaxy that has become our home. And it seems like we're just trashing it.

And also for me as a native, native stories only go so far, and with scientists, they speak the language that can go around the world. Science can make us smarter, but we believe native intelligence can make science smarter also.

The manner in which we care for our land is going to be the manner in which the ocean is going to reflect that. But if we fail to do that, we can be assured that the result of no care of land, and then we'll be losing those environments that are important to us culturally as part of our sustenance and our way of life.

There needs to be a way to have protected areas where people can learn and educate, not even so much for today as for - where are we gonna be fifty years from now? That's the future. Yeah, it's a collective. It's not, "Oh, natives and scientists separatenatives, scientists, and government separate." No, we all, I mean, we gotta be on the same team, on the same page.

We in this together. We want the same thing - we wanna save our planet. We want to take care of our resources. We value nature. And that for me is golden.