巴尔米拉环礁国家野生动物保护区，中太平洋 Palmyra Atoll National Wildlife Refuge, Central Pacific Ocean (© Ian Shive/Tandem Stills + Motion)

巴尔米拉环礁国家野生动物保护区，中太平洋 Palmyra Atoll National Wildlife Refuge, Central Pacific Ocean (© Ian Shive/Tandem Stills + Motion)

田园诗般的岛屿之旅 Idyllic island escape

巴尔米拉环礁国家野生动物保护区

欢迎来到太平洋中部的生态旅行者天堂。巴尔米拉环礁国家野生动物保护区位于夏威夷和美属萨摩亚之间，成立于2001年，旨在保护和管理巴尔米拉环礁的鱼类、野生动物、植物及其栖息地。

这个环礁岛拥有巨大的珊瑚礁系统、三个浅泻湖、以及许多植被繁茂的沙质和礁岩小岛，如椰子树、草海桐和高大的皮孙木。不仅如此，这里的茂密植被组成了一个热闹的“社区”，29种不同鸟类（如蓝脸鲣鸟、黑腹军舰鸟和乌燕鸥）在这里栖息，数量超过100万只。这里也是除加拉帕戈斯群岛外为数不多的红脚鲣鸟栖息地。环礁岛内及其周围海域还有各种各样的海洋野生动物，包括绿海龟、玳瑁龟和世界上最大的陆地无脊椎动物——椰子蟹。

Palmyra Atoll National Wildlife Refuge

Welcome to this eco-friendly Pacific paradise, halfway between Hawaii and American Samoa. The Palmyra Atoll National Wildlife Refuge was established in 2001 to conserve, manage, and restore fish, wildlife, plants, and habitats.

Home to a vast reef system, this atoll has three shallow lagoons, and numerous sandy and reef-rock islets with vegetation like coconut palms, Scaevola, and towering Pisonia trees. The lush greenery here is a bustling neighborhood that is home to over a million birds, including the masked booby, great frigatebird, and sooty tern. It is also one of the few places outside the Galápagos Islands where red-footed boobies are found. There is a huge variety of marine wildlife in and around the atoll, including green sea turtles, hawksbill turtles, and the mighty coconut crab, the world's largest land invertebrate.