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 [...]
Posts Tagged ‘whales’
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 »
Dead Female Humpback found in Kekaha
Posted in ocean protection, tagged cetaceans, navy, ocean protection, sonar, whales on February 12, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Female humpback whale calf will be buried at the Pacific Missile Range Facility (PMRF), perhaps appropriate–since PMRF is the place where much of the high intensity sonar activity in Hawaii is centered. The Navy 20 years ago placed sonar devices on the ocean floor off the west coast of Kauai to detect and track underwater [...]
GAO Finds Bush Admin Failed Marine Mammals
Posted in ocean protection, tagged cetaceans, monk seals, ocean protection, whales on January 9, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
From Allison Winter, E&E reporter: The Bush administration has failed to provide safeguards to protect more than a dozen stocks of marine mammals from injury or death in commercial fishing nets, congressional investigators said in a report released yesterday. The Government Accountability Office found that the National Marine Fisheries Service has failed to meet its [...]
Coincidence, totally. Right.
Posted in ocean protection, tagged military, molokai, sonar, stranding, whales on July 31, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Monday = RIMPAC exercises end and another whale strands itself on Molokai beach. Think they’re related? “Any statements implicating sonar or RIMPAC activities are premature and speculative,” said spokesman Mark Matsunaga. Star-Bulletin story: http://starbulletin.com/2008/07/30/news/story09.html “Obviously I feel that there may be a correlation because, for one thing, this type of whale stranding does occur for [...]
Say NY Times and Star Bulletin: Navy should comply with Environmental Laws
Posted in ocean protection, tagged marine mammals, militarization, military, ocean, oceans, sonar, whales on July 3, 2008 | 1 Comment »
(graphic from abcnews.com) The Supreme Court has taken up the question of whether the Bush Administration can exempt the Navy from laws protecting marine mammals from sonar, and media is chiming in. Both the New York Times and Star Bulletin have come out recently in favor of upholding environmental law when it comes to Navy [...]
Federal Court Issues Injuctions, Requires Navy to Do More to Protect Hawaii’s Marine Mammals from Harmful Sonar
Posted in ocean protection, tagged kohala, military, navy, ocean, ocean protection, sonar, whales on March 1, 2008 | 3 Comments »
Hawai‘i federal district Judge David A. Ezra today found that the Navy is violating federal law and enjoined it from carrying out its Undersea Warfare Exercises in Hawai’i’s waters without adhering to additional mitigation measures to protect marine mammals. The Navy is also required to take a hard look at the impacts of its high-intensity, [...]
Navy Ordered to Establish Sonar-free Zones
Posted in ocean protection, tagged cetaceans, militarization, sonar, whales on February 7, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Via Diana LeBetz on Kauai, excepts from a SF Chronicle article: Wednesday, February 6, 2008 (02-06) 19:27 PST San Francisco — For the second time this week, a federal court found today that a Navy anti-submarine training program threatened to subject whales and other sea creatures to harmful blasts of sonar and ordered protective measures [...]
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