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Sign Petition Petition: Help Protect Hawaii's "Ceded" Lands
KAKOO OIWI Petition
Help Protect Hawaii's "Ceded" Lands
31,331 signatures
About this Petition:
We ask the State Legislature to uphold and respect the finding of the Hawaii State Supreme Court in OHA v HCDC (available at http://www.state.hi.us/jud/opinions/s... which found that the State of Hawaii does not have the authority to sell "ceded" lands. Despite this finding, the Lingle Administration is attempting to move forward with their efforts to sell lands being held in the public trust to a private developer.
Recent Cause Activity
World Oceans Day 2009 Events:
http://www.oceanhealth.org
RSVP or Questions?
eli@oceanhealth.org
415-342-7497
June 6, Saturday, 9:45a-12p
World Oceans Day Shoreline Cleanup
Shorebird Park Nature Center, 160 University Ave., Berkeley, CA
RSVP: http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid...
June 7, Sunday, 10a-12p
World Oceans Day Beach Cleanup
Judah Street Entrance to Ocean Beach, San Francisco, CA
RSVP: http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid...
June 8, Monday, 6:30p-9p
World Oceans Day Film Festival
Montara Lighthouse, Montara, CA
RSVP: http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid...
June 10, Wednesday, 6p doors open, 7p Films
World Oceans Day Film Festival
Victoria Theatre, 16th St. & Mission St., San Francisco, CA
RSVP: http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid...
Buy $10 advance tickets: http://www.victoriatheatre.org or at the door
Not in the Bay Area? Check www.theoceanproject.org/wod/ for local events.
World Oceans Day 2009 Events:
http://www.oceandaysf.org
June 7, Sunday, 10a-12p
World Oceans Day Beach Cleanup
Judah Street Entrance to Ocean Beach, San Francisco, CA
RSVP: http://tinyurl.com/WODoceanbeach
June 8, Monday, 6:30p-9p
World Oceans Day Film Festival
Montara Lighthouse, Montara, CA
RSVP: http://tinyurl.com/WODmontara
June 10, Wednesday, 6p doors open, 7p Films
World Oceans Day Film Festival
Victoria Theatre, 16th St. & Mission St., San Francisco, CA
RSVP: http://tinyurl.com/oceansdayfilm
Buy tickets: http://www.victoriatheatre.org
If you have not already, please submit your opposition online to increased Hawaii swordfish longline fishing that harms sea turtles by May 18 by clicking: http://ow.ly/58tg
Federal regulations are proposed that would increase the longline fishery for swordfish in Hawai'i. This unnecessary increasing in catching toxic swordfish will further threaten endangered leatherback sea turtles,whose Pacific populations collapsed to less than 10 percent during the 1980s and 1990s, and loggerhead sea turtles.
Please tell the federal government that even a few injured or killed leatherbacks and loggerhead sea turtles is too many when these populations are so endangered. The current plan could triple the number of deaths if it is not stopped and further risk sea turtle extinction in the Pacific.
Swordfish is known to contain high levels methylmercury (a neurotoxin that should be avoided) and other contaminants because they bioaccumulate ocean toxins brought up the food chain. Some restaurants will not even serve swordfish anymore because of tumors in the tissue and concerns about its health effects. The question is why risk harming critically endangered sea turtles to put poison on your plate?
Please act by May 18 with your comments to tell the federal government to that we cannot risk sea turtles for increased swordfish catches. Swordfish, along with many top ocean predators, have also declined dramatically and should be protected from overfishing, too.
Thank you for your support of sustainable oceans!
Please also join us in our 10 for Turtles Campaign! In honor of World Turtle Day on May 23, we are asking Twitter users to donate $10 or any amount to help Honu.Org in our advocacy efforts.
Simply go to http://www.honu.org, then click on the link at the top for a quick and secure donation. Please follow us on Twitter while you are at it: http://twitter.com/honu to get our updates.
Thank you again! Mahalo!
I want to turn my sea turtle story into a movie! My book is called "The First Lamp" and its time-travel element links ancient Hawaii with modern times. There, I've said it out loud. Sea turtles, and the conservationists who love them, need their own movie. And it will be gorgeous.
For more info go to www.cathleenhulbert.com
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Come visit my blog about our adventures with the honu.
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North Carolina also has a save the turtle organization, however not sure which ones. I think North Carolina has loggerhead turtles.
North Carolina also has a save the turtle organization, however not sure which ones. I think North Carolina has loggerhead turtles.
Please join "A Day without a Disposable Bag" on December 18th:
http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid...
Give back to the oceans by refusing any plastic disposable bags on December 18th. While you are holiday shopping, you can do something important to reduce the plastic pollution that harms our oceans.
Please share the event with your friends and family.
Happy holidays!
Please join "A Day without a Disposable Bag" on December 18th:
http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid...
Give back to the oceans by refusing any plastic disposable bags on December 18th. While you are holiday shopping, you can do something important to reduce the plastic pollution that harms our oceans.
Please share the event with your friends and family.
Happy holidays!
