Stories From the Blue: Saving Koholā

🌊 Meet the team working to research and disentangle humpback whales in the waters of Hawaiian Islands Humpback Whale National Marine Sanctuary in our latest Stories From the Blue: Saving Koholā! 🐋 Saving Koholā offers a rare and intimate look at the team who monitors and disentangles humpback whales that migrate to these waters to mate and give birth. Entanglement in marine debris remains a major global threat to marine mammals, often leading to injury, starvation, or death. 💙 This film documents the high-stakes work of responding to these incidents, from tracking, approaching, and disentangling whales from dangerous debris. Come along as we follow the response team and capture the urgency, precision, and passion that define this critical conservation work. The film raises public awareness about marine mammal entanglement while honoring the deep cultural and ecological connection Native Hawaiians hold with these migratory giants. -------------------------------------------------------- All imagery of whales and response efforts were taken under the authority of NOAA Fisheries permit nos. 18786 and 24359 (Marine Mammal Health and Stranding Response Program), 21476-01 (University of Hawaii Marine Mammal Research Program), and 20311 and 25754 (NOAA Fisheries Pacific Islands Fisheries Science Center). #EarthIsBlue #StoriesFromTheBlue #whale #hawaiianislands