by Anthony Pignataro By a vote of six to one, the Hawaii Land Use Commission (LUC) voted late yesterday to reject the Olowalu Town project’s Final Environmental Impact Statement (FEIS). The vote on the decade-old proposal to add 1,500 homes and about 4,000 residents to tiny Olowalu came at the end of a marathon hearing […]
By EILEEN CHAO – Staff Writer ([email protected]) , The Maui News In the midst of the third global coral bleaching event on record, local communities can help recovery efforts by curbing soil runoff and protecting herbivores like parrotfish, researchers said. “One of the most important local factors for recovery is going to be a healthy […]
BY LOUISE ROCKETT , Lahaina News WAILUKU – We’ve heard it from all quarters – from the Maui County Council Chambers to the floor of the United Nations. Everyone agrees; you can’t hide coral bleaching and the catastrophic collapse of coral populations across the planet. Maui has not been spared, and this “Side of Paradise” […]
On November 16th the MNMRC and Maui Coral Reef Recovery Team presented to the Maui County Council Infrastructure and Environmental Management Committee on the declining trends of Maui’s reefs and solutions for reversing the trend. Many thanks to Councilmember Elle Cochran for her ongoing support of the MNMRC and efforts to restore our natural resources. […]
MAUIWatch Staff – October 17, 2015 – Maui County Councilmember Elle Cochran of West Maui has been selected by the Obama Administration to serve on the National Ocean Council’s Governance Coordinating Committee, Cochran’s office announced yesterday. According to an Oct. 13 letter from the Executive Office of the President, Cochran will serve a two-year term […]
June 18, 2015 BY LOUISE ROCKETT, Lahaina News LAHAINA – With Polanui Hiu leading the way on the West Side, the Community Managed Makai Area (CMMA) crusade is strong, healthy and growing on Maui. There is nothing new about the concept of community management. It’s a return to the traditional Hawaiian model of decentralized resource […]
June 11, 2015 BY LOUISE ROCKETT , Lahaina News WEST MAUI – The results of a peer-reviewed study released in 2011 determined that the economic value the American people hold for Hawaii’s coral reefs is $33.57 billion. Placing a dollar figure on the worth of our delicate island coral reef ecosystem seems ludicrous – if […]
June 4, 2015 BY LOUISE ROCKETT, Lahaina News OLOWALU – The Maui Nui Marine Resource Council (MNMRC) hosted a community training in Coral Reef Forensics last month in Olowalu. “For the first time, it brought together adversarial groups” of all ages, MNMRC Chair Dr. Robin Newbold explained, including developers, scientists, teachers, cultural leaders, students, a […]
May 28, 2015 BY LOUISE ROCKETT, Lahaina News OLOWALU – From the shoreline to the outer reaches of the reef, Olowalu is under siege, and the state is proposing to re-armor against the onslaught of the waves. At a meeting held last Tuesday (May 19) in Lahaina at King Kamehameha III Elementary School, plans were […]
Six communities from the Maui Nui Makai Area Network, along with supporting partners the Maui Nui Marine Resource Council and the Nature Conservancy, sign the Hokule’a ledger for the Malama Honua campaign. By signing, the groups are dedicating themselves to improving their communities in Maui Nui by the time Hokule’a returns from her worldwide voyage. […]
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