From Marti: We have commented on every permit issued and every plan released concerning Papahanaumokuakea because we want to see these public trust resources protected. At every hearing for five years, we have asked the co-managers to assess the cumulative impact of human activities in the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands. They punted on the monument management plan [...]
Posts Tagged ‘northwestern hawaiian islands’
Admit it, we were right all along
Posted in Hawaiian Monk Seal, Northwest Hawaiian Islands, conservation, ocean protection, tagged DLNR, EIS, environmental review, extractive research, land board, northwestern hawaiian islands, NWHI, ocean protection, papahanaumokuakea marine national monument on April 20, 2010 | 1 Comment »
Hawaii’s Renewable Portfolio Standards: Aggressive But in Need of Qualification
Posted in 1, Northwest Hawaiian Islands, activism, climate change, conservation, environmental justice, island sustainability, land and cultural rights, legislature, ocean protection, other, tagged hawaii, activism, ocean, land and cultural rights, oceans, environmental justice, management, legislature, sustainability, island sustainability, northwestern hawaiian islands, conservation, energy independence, energy, fossil fuels, climate change, climate justice, cap and trade, renewable energy, global warming, energy law, renewable portfolio standards, biofuels on July 27, 2009 | 1 Comment »
From: Andrea Just last month, Act 155 was passed in the Hawaii Legislature, amending Hawaii’s renewable energy law. One of the highlights of this amendment was the strengthening of Hawaii’s Renewable Portfolio Standards (often abbreviated as RPS). These standards are binding for electric utility companies, which must satisfy the specified percentage of their net electricity [...]
KAHEA Lawsuit Makes Headlines
Posted in Hawaiian Monk Seal, Northwest Hawaiian Islands, activism, conservation, fisheries, land and cultural rights, ocean protection, tagged activism, beaches, conservation, cultural rights, culture, fisheries, land and cultural rights, marine protected area, northwestern hawaiian islands, NWHI, ocean, ocean protection on July 23, 2009 | 2 Comments »
HONOLULU ADVERTISER, ENVIRONMENTAL NEWS WIRE REPORT ON CONTROVERSY by Stewart: KAHEA’s complaint asking a Hawaii court to require the state Department of Land and Natural Resources to follow state law concerning permits for the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands National Marine Monument has made news, as Hawaii’s largest newspaper and a national environmental wire service both published [...]
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 [...]
32 Tons of Marine Litter Removed: Sadly, the Tip of the Iceberg
Posted in Hawaiian Monk Seal, Northwest Hawaiian Islands, activism, conservation, environmental justice, island sustainability, land and cultural rights, ocean protection, tagged access, activism, beach access, beaches, conservation, cultural rights, development, environmental justice, hawaii, island sustainability, land and cultural rights, marine protected area, marine reserve, monk seals, northwestern hawaiian islands, NWHI, ocean, ocean protection, oceans, shoreline, sustainability on July 13, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
From: Andrea The U.S. Coast Guard removed 32 tons of debris from the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands over the Fourth of July weekend. Much thanks to the Coast Guard for ameliorating the health of our oceans! See the Honolulu Advertiser article: http://www.honoluluadvertiser.com/article/20090713/BREAKING01/307130004/U.S.%20Coast%20Guard%20removes%2032%20tons%20of%20debris%20from%20Northwestern%20Hawaiian%20Islands?GID=e/Si+j1sOYkNlMXAMxQScaqw1wgB5/Nurtn+5iNvNh8%3D While I am glad that efforts to clean up marine litter are taking place, [...]
Wanted: Old Seal Stories
Posted in Hawaiian Monk Seal, Hawaiian language, Northwest Hawaiian Islands, fisheries, ocean protection, tagged beaches, marine reserve, northwestern hawaiian islands, ocean protection, oceans on June 30, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
As part of ongoing efforts to protect endangered Hawaiian monk seals, federal officials are turning to old Hawaiian chants and songs. The purpose: to battle misperceptions that the Hawaiian monk seal is an invasive species that does not deserve protection. “This ain’t the mongoose; this animal was here before any of us,” says David Schofield, [...]
Hooray for No Bioprospecting in the NWHI!
Posted in Northwest Hawaiian Islands, activism, conservation, island sustainability, land and cultural rights, ocean protection, tagged bioprospecting, northwestern hawaiian islands, papahanaumokuakea marine national monument, prohibition on bioprospecting, Science Plan on June 24, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
From: Andrea Good news: bioprospecting is now prohibited in the Papahanaumokuakea Marine National Monument! KAHEA has been pushing for this prohibition from the beginning of the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands’ protection. State permits have prohibited bioprospecting for some time. But, with only permits issued in the state refuge prohibiting bioprospecting, the entire Monument was not protected. [...]
Fishing in NWHI?
Posted in 1, land and cultural rights, ocean protection, tagged cultural rights, fisheries, land and cultural rights, management plan, marine protected area, northwestern hawaiian islands, NWHI, ocean protection on June 23, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
From Alana: On June 15, the third anniversary of the designation of the Northwest Hawaiian Islands as a national monument, a boat that was caught fishing multiple times in a highly protected area of the Papahanaumokuakea Marine National Monument. The bottom-fishing boat was in a very restricted area of the monument, which extends 50 miles [...]
Monk Seal Protection Update
Posted in 1, Hawaiian Monk Seal, activism, ocean protection, tagged activism, fisheries, marine protected area, monk seals, northwestern hawaiian islands, ocean protection, oceans, shoreline on June 19, 2009 | 2 Comments »
from Stewart: After the Surfrider Foundation’s Kauai chapter offered a reward for information leading to the arrest and conviction of the person responsible for killing two Hawaiian monk seals on Kauai, it raised an obvious question: Why is the Surfrider Foundation having to offer a reward? Where is the federal government? It turns out officials [...]
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 [...]
Honolulu NWHI Hearing Online
Posted in ocean protection, tagged marine protected area, marine reserve, northwestern hawaiian islands, NWHI, ocean, ocean protection, oceans on July 9, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Video of the Honolulu hearing on the Draft Management Plan for the Papahanaumokuakea Marine Monument in the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands held in Honolulu on June 24th. The 1,200 page plan will direct the future of public trust resources in the last, large intact Hawaiian reef ecosystem in the world. At the hearing, leading local conservation [...]
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 [...]
NWHI Marine Monument Hearings on Oahu TV
Posted in ocean protection, tagged marine protected area, marine reserve, northwestern hawaiian islands, NWHI, ocean, ocean protection on July 5, 2008 | 1 Comment »
From our buddy Oren, who helped us get this public hearing documented and on air: The video taping of the Honolulu hearing on the Draft Management Plan for The Papahanaumokuakea Marine Monument in the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands held in Honolulu on June 24th will be aired on ‘Olelo Community Television on ch. 52 as well [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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