From Alana: From “Hawai’i has a lot to gain from open ocean aquaculture” in today’s Honolulu Advertiser: Just as we need to be off imported oil, we need to be off imported seafood. This opportunity can be an economic engine for Hawai’i, and hundreds of millions of dollars are at stake.Let’s not stand in our [...]
Posts Tagged ‘endangered species’
Hawaii’s aqua culture
Posted in Aquaculture, activism, conservation, fisheries, food sovereignty, island sustainability, land and cultural rights, ocean protection, tagged activism, conservation, cultural rights, endangered species, fisheries, hawaii, island sustainability, sustainability on August 2, 2009 | 3 Comments »
Wespac Wants to Weaken Swordfish Fishery Rules
Posted in conservation, fisheries, ocean protection, tagged endangered species, fisheries, ocean protection, oceans on July 28, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
From Alana: Instead of having a limit of 2,120 sets of fishing gear deployments annually, Wespac thinks it’s a better idea to just catch swordfish until a sea turtle gets tangled in the net… WHAT? Green sea turtles, loggerhead turtles, and leatherback turles are all endangered species that live in Hawaii. This new rule puts [...]
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 »
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 [...]
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 [...]
Natural Rights: Not Ours, But Nature’s
Posted in Northwest Hawaiian Islands, activism, climate change, conservation, environmental justice, island sustainability, land and cultural rights, legislature, ocean protection, other, tagged activism, conservation, corporations as persons, cultural rights, endangered species, environmental justice, ethics, extinction, hawaii, island sustainability, land and cultural rights, legal rights, legislature, monk seals, natural rights, nature, ocean protection, sustainability on July 21, 2009 | 2 Comments »
From: Andrea Most people are familiar with our inalienable natural rights, as John Locke summed up as life, liberty, and property. But what about nature’s right to exist, flourish, and naturally evolve? These are the inalienable legal rights that the town of Shapleigh, Maine, voted to grant to nature last February. Now, in the town [...]
Molokai Plant added to Endangered Species List Today
Posted in conservation, tagged endangered species, mint on March 17, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
http://www.fws.gov/news/newsreleases/showNews.cfm?newsId=1681C409-BE1D-830E-087C0B90C82C782C Rare Molokai mint plant was officially listed today! From Jan TenBruggencate at his Raising Islands blog: This little plant isn’t the kind of mint you put in a julep, and it doesn’t have a minty smell, but it’s a relative of the fragrant mints. It’s a vine with lots of branches—kind of sprawling and [...]
Feds Will Consider More Critical Habitat for Monk Seal
Posted in ocean protection, tagged endangered species, endangered species act, main hawaiian islands, monk seals, NWHI on October 8, 2008 | 1 Comment »
On Friday, in response to a petition from KAHEA, the Center for Biological Diversity, and the Ocean Conservancy, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) announced it will consider designating additional critical habitat for the highly endangered Hawaiian monk seal in the Northwestern as well as Main Hawaiian Islands. This is an important first step! [...]
WANTED: Critical Habitat for Monk Seal
Posted in ocean protection, tagged critical habitat, endangered species, endangered species act, monk seals, ocean, oceans on July 3, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
KAHEA, along with the Center for Biological Diversity and the Ocean Conservancy, filed a formal petition yesterday, seeking to have beaches and surrounding waters on the main Hawaiian islands designated as critical habitat for Hawaiian monk seals under the Endangered Species Act. Under the Endangered Species Act, critical habitat identifies geographic areas that contain features [...]
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