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    The document announces upcoming events and activities related to Hawaiian monk seal recovery efforts, including scoping meetings in October 2010 for a programming EIS with comment deadline in November, an ongoing monk seal research project from 2010-2011, and a Hawaiian monk seal recovery Native Hawaiian working group also from 2010-2011. It discusses issues some have with monk seal behavior and the goal of the Nä Mea Hulu project to protect the declining seal population without impacting Hawaiian practices and fishermen's livelihoods. It asks for community participation in recovery activities and provides contact information for more details.

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    The document announces upcoming events and activities related to Hawaiian monk seal recovery efforts, including scoping meetings in October 2010 for a programming EIS with comment deadline in November, an ongoing monk seal research project from 2010-2011, and a Hawaiian monk seal recovery Native Hawaiian working group also from 2010-2011. It discusses issues some have with monk seal behavior and the goal of the Nä Mea Hulu project to protect the declining seal population without impacting Hawaiian practices and fishermen's livelihoods. It asks for community participation in recovery activities and provides contact information for more details.

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    Na Mea Hulu Brochure

    Uploaded by

    Trisha Kehaulani Watson-Sproat
    The document announces upcoming events and activities related to Hawaiian monk seal recovery efforts, including scoping meetings in October 2010 for a programming EIS with comment deadline in November, an ongoing monk seal research project from 2010-2011, and a Hawaiian monk seal recovery Native Hawaiian working group also from 2010-2011. It discusses issues some have with monk seal behavior and the goal of the Nä Mea Hulu project to protect the declining seal population without impacting Hawaiian practices and fishermen's livelihoods. It asks for community participation in recovery activities and provides contact information for more details.

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    Upcoming Events

    Nä Mea Hulu

    Hawaiian Monk Seal


    Recovery and the Native
    Hawaiian Community

    Programming EIS Scoping Meetings:


    October 2010

    Scoping Comments Deadline:


    November 30, 2010
    (extended from November 15, 2010)
    E mälama i nä pua
    Hawaiian Monk Seal Research Project:
    2010-2011 o Kanaloa.

    Hawaiian Monk Seal Recovery Native


    Hawaiian Working Group: 2010-2011
    Honua Consulting
    Draft Programming EIS Released: PO Box 61395
    Spring 2011 Honolulu, HI 96839 www.nameahulu.org
    www.honuaconsulting.com
    Phone: 808.392.1617
    Fax: 888.392.4941
    honua.consulting@gmail.com
    Mälama i nä pua o Kanaloa

    Problems with Monk Seal


    Behavior in the Main
    We need your help.
    There are a range of activities
    Hawaiian Islands related to the recovery of the
    We recognize that some people Hawaiian monk seal population
    have concerns about the monk seals. that can use the participation
    Fisherman and recreational ocean users of the Hawaiian community.
    note problems with the seals getting
    These include research efforts,
    into gear or eating from their catches.
    public comment opportunities,
    Finding Balance working groups, volunteer
    The Hawaiian Monk Seal projects and more!
    Nä Mea Hulu is a project by
    The Hawaiian monk seal are over 10 Honua Consulting, funded by the
    Please sign up for updates at our
    million years old. While mentions of National Oceanic and Atmospheric
    the monk seal in Hawaiian literature Administration. The goal is to find website www.nameahulu.org.
    are rare, they do exist. Our küpuna ways to protect the dwindling monk
    referenced the seal with various names, seal population without impacting the Mahalo!
    including ‘Ïlioholoikauaua and Nä Mea practices and livelihoods of Hawaiians
    Hulu among others. There are küpuna and fisherman.
    who have traditional knowledge about For more information:
    the monk seals and their presence in
    pre-contact Hawai‘i. www.nameahulu.org

    http://www.nmfs.noaa.gov/pr/species/
    As a child of Kanaloa, Hawaiians mammals/pinnipeds/hawaiianmonk
    need to discuss the role of the monk seal.htm
    seal in modern Hawai‘i. Every child
    of Hawai‘i is important; the Hawaiian http://www.pifsc.noaa.gov/library/
    monkseal.html
    monk seal is no exception. The seals
    are on the verge of extinction; they http://ecos.fws.gov/speciesProfile/
    need our help. profile/speciesProfile.action?spcode
    Native Hawaiian fisherman fishing with his =A071
    grandson. Note the päpio shown, caught by
    the boy in the photo, was thrown back for
    conservation purposes.

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