Obama Hawaii National Park
Hawaii National ParkBarack Obama creates the world's largest marine park
U.S. President Barack Obama will be adding a national memorial near the Hawaiian coastline. Obama's government said it was moving on Friday. It' going to make the biggest sea sanctuary in the whole wide globe. This Presidency operation will increase the dimensions of a memorial erected by President George W. Bush in 2006.
It is now expanding the Papahanaumokuakea Marine National Memorial to approximately 1.5 million sqkm. This extended area is regarded as a holy place for the Hawaiians. Barack Obama will visit the memorial next weekend to raise awareness of the need to save the world' s land and water from global warming. This move prohibits industrial fisheries and new mines in the area of the memorial.
Academic research and the extraction of seafood and other natural ressources for indigenous culture in Hawaii are also allowed. A number of fishery groups fear that an extension of the national naval heritage could harm their industries. Mr. Sean Martin is the Chairman of the Hawaii Long Line Association. Hawaii's longliner fishery provides most of the country's freshwater bluefin tunas and other species.
Previously, Martin predicted that the fishing fleets would catch about 900,000 kilos of fishing per year from the area suggested for the extended area. The Hawaiian Governor, David Ige, said he was "disappointed" with the Hawaiian governor's move to back enlargement. The extension of the memorial would be politically, not scientifically, he said.
As the Obama government has described the extension, it will protect more than 7,000 different types of sea creatures. Ship wrecks and airplanes from the Battle of Midway during World War II are in the enlargement area. Meanwhile Obama has either added or added 26 national memorials. Government said Obama has elevated national memorials more than any other presiden.
Obama said that enlargement is a response to a suggestion by Hawaii's Democrat Senator Brian Schatz and Hawaii' indigenous leader. Germany will entrust the Department of Natural Resources and the Office of Hawaiian Affairs with a greater part in the supervision of the mausoleum.