We got our August issue of the excellent Environment Hawai’i in the mail the other day! On DAR’s proposed list of activities that they believe should be exempted from doing environmental assessment, they write, “DAR’s proposed list appears to exempt every type of permit and license issued by the division.” Including live rock and coral [...]
Posts Tagged ‘NWHI’
Reading: Environment Hawai’i, August Issue
Posted in Northwest Hawaiian Islands, activism, environmental justice, ocean protection, other, tagged land and cultural rights, NWHI, environmental justice, ocean protection on August 23, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
That Deafness? It’s Only Temporary.
Posted in Hawaiian Monk Seal, Northwest Hawaiian Islands, activism, fisheries, military toxics, ocean protection, tagged military, NWHI, ocean protection on August 5, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Many of you followed the sonar lawsuit from 2008, in which KAHEA, in partnership with Earthjustice and other local, national and international NGOs, sued the U.S. Navy over its proposed expansion of military exercises around Hawai’i, including the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands. The State of Hawai’i, at our urging, also asked the Navy to comply with [...]
Exemptions Gone Wild
Posted in Northwest Hawaiian Islands, activism, island sustainability, land and cultural rights, ocean protection, telescopes, tagged land and cultural rights, NWHI, process, mauna kea, Haleakala, HEPA on August 4, 2010 | 1 Comment »
Generally, under today’s environmental laws, certain kinds of projects have to do an environmental review (Like an EIS). Other kinds of projects can be exempted. The BP oil spill at Deepwater Horizon has been a sobering reminder of why these kinds of environmental reviews and exemptions are so critical. (Can you believe THIS was exempted [...]
A little explanation.
Posted in Northwest Hawaiian Islands, activism, tagged conservation, NWHI, ocean protection, world heritage on May 11, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
From Miwa: I wrote the little explanation below the other day to Uncle Bill Aila, Jr. in response to an email from him. Though it was written for him, I thought I would share it here on our blog, as others may have questions about KAHEA’s support of Na Koa and Koani Foundation in their [...]
Antifouling Causes Paler Fish
Posted in Aquaculture, Northwest Hawaiian Islands, ocean protection, tagged Aquaculture, boats, nets, NWHI, ocean protection, oceans on May 11, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
From Marti: Study in Sweden found that new antifouling chemical medetomidine (used to prevent the buildup of barnacles, seaweed/marine organisms on the cages/nets of open water fish farms) causes paler fish, affecting the skin cells that contain dark pigment. It also appears to affect a detoxifying enzyme in the fish’s livers, which could result in [...]
State finally getting it right for Northwestern Hawaiian Islands… -ish.
Posted in Northwest Hawaiian Islands, conservation, ocean protection, tagged NWHI, ocean protection on April 30, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
From Marti: Last week, the Board of Land and Natural Resources held a special meeting to consider several permit applications from HIMB researchers for activities in the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands, Papahānaumokuākea. After several years of public testimony at every permit hearing — and even finally, a lawsuit! – the Land Board and its staff finally admitted: [...]
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 »
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 [...]
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 [...]
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.
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, [...]
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 [...]
Red. Handed.
Posted in ocean protection, tagged fishing, NWHI, ocean protection on June 23, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Vessel caught illegally fishing in the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands: A Coast Guard search plane on patrol of the Papahanaumokuakea Marine National Monument spotted a U.S.-flagged vessel fishing in a special preservation area within the monument on June 15. The Coast Guard said it took video and still photos of the vessel’s crew hauling its lines [...]
Navy and WESPAC stand in way of Marine Monuments in the Pacific
Posted in ocean protection, tagged marine monuments, marine protection, navy, NWHI, WESPAC on February 10, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Some random quotes about the opposition to marine monuments in the Pacific from “Islands Business International” a Fijian on-line newspaper. The obstacles it cites: first the Navy, then WESPAC. “Ironically, the most significant opposition to extending the monuments to the full EEZs of the 11 islands had nothing to do with fishing: it came from [...]
Kitty: Here’s a mirror
Posted in island sustainability, land and cultural rights, military toxics, ocean protection, tagged fisheries, Kitty Simonds, NWHI, open government, Pacific, transparency, WESAPC on January 22, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
If Kitty Simonds (WESPAC Exec.) really believes what she wrote in this Sunday-Editorial, then this woman needs to take a good look in the mirror. She calls out the U.S. military for the harm its presence causes the people of the Pacific, when WESPAC’s own mismanagement over the last 25 years has decimated multiple fisheries [...]
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 [...]
Lubchenco to head NOAA
Posted in ocean protection, tagged noaa, NWHI, oceans on December 18, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
From todayʻs Washington Post, looks like Oregon Professor will be tapped to head up the National Ocean and Atospheric Administration. NOAA is one of three co-trustees (the other two are the Department of Interior and the State of Hawaii) entrusted with conservation of the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands. http://voices.washingtonpost.com/the-trail/2008/12/18/lubchenco_will_helm_national_o.html
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! [...]
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 [...]
Bombs Away! RIMPAC’s Back
Posted in environmental justice, land and cultural rights, ocean protection, tagged military, navy, NWHI, oceans, rimpac, sonar on July 1, 2008 | 2 Comments »
From Marti: RIMPAC officially started on Sunday, meaning you can expect beach closures, random explosions, mass strandings, and displays of excessive military force throughout the month of July in Hawaii. Remember, RIMPAC is the bi-annual demonstration of U.S.-occupation that brought us the “Hanalei Bay Incident” in 2004, when 150 melonhead whales attempted to strand themselves [...]
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 [...]
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