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OHA’s statement on Trump’s Executive Order to review National Monument designations or expansions

OHA’s statement on President Donald Trump’s recent Executive Order calling for the review of National Monument designations or expansions under the Antiquities Act since 1996, which includes the Papahānaumokuākea Marine National Monument “OHA stands behind the countless Native Hawaiian traditional and customary practitioners, navigators, scientists, conservationists, and others who called for the 2006 creation and the 2016 expansion of Papahānaumokuākea Marine National Monument, and urged OHA to join them in supporting the protection of this ‘āina akua. Papahānaumokuākea is a unique contiguous cultural seascape that holds tremendous historic, cultural, and scientific value for Native Hawaiians and all Americans. We believe…

OHA named Papahānaumokuākea co-trustee

By Treena Shapiro Papahānaumokuākea Marine National Monument will be become the world’s largest marine protected area, according to an announcement from the White House. Encompassing the marine area of the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands, home to more than 7,000 marine species and important historic and scientific artifacts, Papahānaumokuākea will be expanded to four times its original area, making it twice as large as Texas. In May, the Office of Hawaiian Affairs Board of Trustees voted to conditionally support the proposed boundary expansion of Papahānaumokuākea Marine National Monument provided that: OHA is elevated to a co-trustee position, The cultural significance of…

OHA sponsored symposium gives audiences rare peek at Papahānaumokuākea

HILO -- On August 5th, audiences in Hilo, Hawaiʻi heard directly from researchers, cultural practitioners and community members who have had the rare opportunity to experience the remote Northwestern Hawaiian islands first-hand. At the all-day symposium, sponsored by the Office of Hawaiian Affairs and the Papahānaumokuākea Marine National Monument Management Board (MMB), presenters talked about Papahānaumokuākea’s rich natural and cultural resources, as well as the work being done to strengthen ancestral ties to the kūpuna islands. “It is our hope that events like this will increase the number of people that have the opportunity to connect with Papahānaumokuākea and increase…