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Mahalos Syd for going out front to protect the Aina The horrific destruction I have seen from this poison is scary especially since I have children and granchildren living and swimming in the areas full of scum and other unknown contaminants in the water. The health dept only tests for fecal mater, even tho Malama O Puna states the water is being tested the sludge carries nonorobic microganisms that cause eye,ear, nose, sinus,respatory infections along with dysentery This Island should not be an experimental playground for chemical companies these diseases their chemicals create, who is liable for the health problems, who is liable for the environmental disaster Malama O puna and their sponsors govt agencies have created? The Milo trees behind the Mangroves being poisoned are losing their leaves, the Honu have no Limu on the rocks to eat With a United Nations Treaty to protect these trees that over a hundred nations have sigened, somehow its ok to kill because a lifeform is non-native, very few of us a pure native, are we on the list for extermination? Go for it Syd my family supports you all the way.

Kudos Syd, for acting on the conviction that this is wrong, laws are being circumvented, and as a result, our environment is being treated like a test tube. In our efforts to reduce our negative impact on biodiversity, we must be extremely diligent to not add to the problem with our "solutions." Much like a doctor's Hippocratic Oath, we must first, do no harm. In my opinion, we would be better served utilizing manpower over mind power (poisons, releasing predators, etc.). Let's use available funds to put more people to work battling non-native invasives in the field rather than using the latest scheme they came up with in a laboratory, somewhere.

I totally with you all who that are against mangrove poisoning. All the species of Hawaii were alien at one time. Also now that the mangroves are dead wouldn't all the sediment be released into the Ocean affecting the Ocean's wildlife? Not to mention the poison must have some negative effects on the ecosystem. Does the poison make the swamp permanently inhabitable for the mangroves? Also is their some petition I can sign to show my support?

Syd I admire you for your enthusiasm, your insight, your tireless efforts. You stand up for whatever seems to be right to you. You initiate a movement with no fear or compromise. Good for you. This is great environmental move. We citizens need to speak up. It is about time to stop further destruction of our environment and our ecology. I will be anxiously continuing to follow the process of this lawsuit.

There are so many things wrong with this project it is hard to know where to begin. But start with the rationale behind the project itself, as stated by Malama O Puna, which was to find a cheap methodology to kill off Mangroves without having to go to the bother of removing the dead plants from the environment. This is despite the clear warning on the herbicide label that if the dead trees are not removed, they will cause anaerobic conditions in the habitat as they rot, causing the death of many aquatic organisms. Since the mangrove eradication is occuring in environmentally sensitive areas full of the larval and juvenile forms of native fish and invertebrates, then one can only conclude that Malama O Puna is knowingly killing these native organisms for the sake of the good old bottom line, the profit margin. Hawaii's environment is once more being destroyed by someone whose true motive is to line their own pockets while pretending to "malama".