From Alana: On Thursday night, a film entitled A Sea Change, was shown at the Bishop Museum. It addressed the much ignored by-product of climate change, ocean acidification. Ocean acidification is, arguably, the most dire consequence of adding ridiculous amounts of carbon dioxide to the air. For years, the ocean has been absorbing extra CO2 from [...]
Posts Tagged ‘coral’
A Sea Change–film on ocean acidification
Posted in climate change, conservation, island sustainability, legislature, ocean protection, other, tagged conservation, coral, endangered species, island sustainability, ocean protection, sustainability on July 25, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Draft Science Plan Public Hearing: Grandfathering-in Permitted Activities
Posted in Hawaiian Monk Seal, Northwest Hawaiian Islands, activism, conservation, island sustainability, land and cultural rights, ocean protection, other, tagged activism, beaches, conservation, coral, cultural rights, endangered species, environmental justice, hawaii, hearing, island sustainability, land and cultural rights, malama, management, marine protected area, monk seals, northwestern hawaiian islands, NWHI, ocean, ocean protection, oceans, shoreline, superferry, sustainability, whales on July 22, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
From: Andrea Last night at the public hearing on the Draft Science Plan for Papahanaumokuakea Marine National Monument, held at the monument office in Hawaii Kai, a troubling consequence of the lack of environmental review was elucidated. One of the Science Plan authors stated that research activities that have already been permitted are assumed to [...]
KAHEA SUES STATE TO PROTECT NWHI
Posted in Hawaiian Monk Seal, Northwest Hawaiian Islands, conservation, fisheries, land and cultural rights, ocean protection, tagged activism, coral, cultural rights, culture, island sustainability, land and cultural rights, marine protected area, NWHI, ocean, ocean protection, oceans, shoreline on July 21, 2009 | 2 Comments »
“This is not the wild west; there are laws here. Laws that are meant to protect our natural resources and the best interests of Hawaii’s people. DLNR must follow these laws.” — Kumu Hula Vicky Holt-Takamine, KAHEA’s Board President.
Holding the Navy Accountable on Two Fronts
Posted in conservation, environmental justice, island sustainability, land and cultural rights, military toxics, ocean protection, tagged contamination, coral, damage, EPA, grounding, hawaii, Lualualei, navy, PCBs, reef, USS Port Royal on April 2, 2009 | 1 Comment »
From Marti: The Navy has been on the hot seat lately for the damage it has caused in Hawaii nei. In central and western Oahu, the Environmental Protection Agency and the state got a commitment from the Navy to clean up any remaining contamination at two Superfund sites – one in Lualualei near the naval [...]
Understatement of the Month
Posted in ocean protection, tagged coral, military, ocean protection, sewage, water quality on February 23, 2009 | 1 Comment »
From the Honolulu Advertiser coverage of the grounding and sewage release by the U.S. Navy’s 567-foot Port Royal: The omission was one more bit of embarrassment heaped onto the 3 1/2-day spectacle of a 9,600-ton warship capable of shooting down ballistic missiles in space sitting helplessly aground in 17 to 22 feet of water just [...]
Are they hoping nobody would notice?
Posted in climate change, land and cultural rights, ocean protection, tagged coral, management plan, marine habitat, monk seal, Monument, northwestern hawaiian islands, NWHI, ocean, Papahanaumokuakea, turtle on December 30, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
From Marti: Late in the day on December 23rd, the final version of the Monument management plan was quietly published on the Papahānaumokuākea website. No press release. No email to the list serv. Just a quick post on the eve of the Eve of Christmas, which just happened to get picked up in a google [...]
but we knew that already
Posted in ocean protection, tagged coral, human impacts, northwestern hawaiian islands, ocean, ocean protection, reefs on July 9, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Star-Bulletin headline from yesterday: “Humans pose main trouble for isles’ coral, report says.” So says the report-back from the 11th International Coral Reef Symposium. The good news is that on average Hawaiian reefs are doing better than those in other places under United States jurisdiction, despite pressures from human impacts. According to the report, the [...]
Evan in Honolulu Advertiser: concerns persist over NWHI plan!
Posted in activism, ocean protection, tagged activism, coral, management plan, northwestern hawaiian islands, NWHI, precautionary principle on July 8, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Evan is our rock star summer intern here at KAHEA, a UH Law Student, and Fellow with the Center for Excellence in Native Hawaiian Law. He has spent much of the last month combing the 1,200 page draft plan for the future of the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands–some of the last intact Hawaiian coral reef on [...]
15 more days to speak up for some of Hawai`i’s last intact coral reefs!
Posted in ocean protection, tagged activism, coral, northwestern hawaiian islands, NWHI, ocean, ocean protection on July 8, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Thanks to your strong requests for additional time, government managers have granted an extra 15-days for public comment–moving the final deadline for comments to July 23. It ain’t much, but it is something. If you’re a member of the KAHEA Action Alert Network, you’ve been seeing alerts on protecting the future of the pristine coral [...]
Where’s the public in this “public process”?
Posted in ocean protection, tagged coral, hearing, management plan, marine protected area, marine reserve, northwestern hawaiian islands, NWHI, ocean, ocean protection, oceans, process, public on July 1, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
From Evan, law school student and Legal Fellow from the Center for Excellence in Native Hawaiian Law working on staff with KAHEA this summer: Was thrown into the deep waters of the 1,200 page Papahanaumokuakea Draft Monument Management Plan for the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands this summer. It’s given me a unique opportunity to observe the [...]
enforcement means everybody, folks.
Posted in ocean protection, tagged coral, coral disease, enforcement, NWHI, ocean on July 1, 2008 | 1 Comment »
From Miwa: On June 13, the Hawai`i Board of Land and Natural Resources quietly denied the permit of HIMB disease researcher Greta Aeby, in the closing chapter of a historic enforcement action for the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands. Aeby was reported in 2006 by fellow researchers to be transporting potentially diseased coral shipboard in an open-flow [...]
conservation plan = more impacts? we don’t get it.
Posted in activism, ocean protection, tagged coral, militarization, northwestern hawaiian islands, NWHI, ocean, ocean protection, oceans, pu'uhonua on June 27, 2008 | 4 Comments »
A short video we put together on the new draft of a 15-year plan for the future of the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands.* We’ve read all 1,200 pages of it, and reviewed it with experts everywhere from Sierra Club to Environmental Defense. Our conclusion? We can do much, much better. Now, we’re seeking signatures on a [...]
Uncle Buzzy Calls for Renewed Committment to Pu`uhonua, Sunday’s Star-Bulletin
Posted in ocean protection, tagged coral, fisheries, fishing, harvest, human footprint, management, NWHI, permits, protection, pu'uhonua, research, science on March 5, 2008 | 3 Comments »
We opened up the Star-Bulletin on Sunday, and there in the Gathering Place section was long-time NWHI advocate Uncle Buzzy, calling for a renewed public commitment to a true pu`uhonua — a ‘forever sanctuary’ — in the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands. Ho‘omaika‘i ia Uncle Buzzy! Uncle Louis “Buzzy” Agard, is a founding Board Member of KAHEA [...]
being heard? yup, it feels good.
Posted in activism, ocean protection, tagged activism, contested case, coral, coral disease, malama, NWHI, public voice, research permits, violations on March 2, 2008 | 1 Comment »
From Marti: I admit to still being on cloud 9 about the recent announcement of the hearing officer’s decision on KAHEA’s standing to participate in the contested case on the research permit violations in the NWHI. Hooray! What an amazing affirmation of the power of showing up. We have attended every possible hearing about research [...]
It’s about respect, man.
Posted in ocean protection, tagged contested case, coral, NWHI, oceans on February 27, 2008 | 1 Comment »
From Miwa: It’s true that the HIMB researcher currently under investigation for NWHI permit violations is coral disease researcher, and that coral disease is bad stuff. In doing this work, we’ve learned more about coral disease than we probably ever wanted to–coral disease is an important concern in our oceans worldwide. So why advocate strict [...]
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