Malama Maunalua

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Category: Hawaii

Mālama Maunalua is a group of over seventy organizations is dedicated to creating a more culturally and ecologically healthy Maunalua Bay in Southeast O'ahu. The bay extends from Koko Head point to Black Point and is one of the largest bays in Hawai'i. The group shares a vision where the fish are once again plentiful, pollution and sedimentation are mitigated, and where people, community groups, businesses and agencies take care in sustainably managing Maunalua Bay.

"In 2006, Mālama Maunalua completed a series of three planning workshops sponsored by The Nature Conservancy and NOAA (National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration) called Efroymson Conservation Action Planning” workshops for Pacific Islands. Other teams included members from Kosrae, Palau, and Palmyra. The workshops allowed for science-based systematic thinking and planning for highest priority conservation actions via participation by all members and resource experts from NOAA and other marine scientists. Mālama Maunalua has begun implementing the actions planned from the workshop."

"A new initiative of Mālama Maunalua in line with the Conservation Action Plan is the Maunalua Makai Watch program. In May and June 2007, about 30 volunteers from the community were given introductory training in Maunalua geography, history, marine resources, human use monitoring, and regulatory observation and compliance." [1]

External links

• Marine: Maunalua Bay The Nature Conservancy.
• Altonn, Helen. Saving Maunalua Bay -- A coalition of community volunteers and researchers works to restore part of the sea to its once pristine state Honolulu Star-Bulletin", March 31, 2008.