2020-09-22 Game Management Advisory Commission Minutes

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consumed. But 50% of that – so 25% of what you guys in actually – 25% of what you guys went kill was only consumed. So 75% waste. That’s a lot of waste, especially one time when people are starving. 60% of this island is unemployed and we’re just leaving ‘em for the dogs on the mountain. You know, the palila bird, the numbers going down – why? Cause you get cats up there. The sheep never did make one decline on the palila bird. It was the feral cats that they like go up in the mountain and nobody trap. The dogs that is up there that nobody do nothing about. You got to talk about predators – that’s the only way something going die is you get one predator, right or if the state creates one predator like, hey, \[unclear\] like hey, killing all the sheep – so one palila bird – they guys going shoot the palila bird – every time they see one they going shoot ‘em – why? ‘Cause that bird right there is taking food away from their family, right, so you create a target when you do target species protecting, right, we get protection for everybody but not for the Hawaiian people. Get invasive species on this Island – invasive species on this Island get more protection than the Hawaiian people. Not endangered species. But… NP: Can you talk a little bit about Hawaiian homelands and what you know about the eradication efforts on Hawaiian Homelands… GD: I don’t know too much on the efforts. I know that they removing a lot of animals. NP: Cause we don’t ever hear about that so much… GD: I think they’re in the vicinity of some 200+ cattle went to Honolulu already from this Island. They say it goes to the beneficiaries but not all the beneficiaries have gotten it – that’s a whole ‘nother different meeting from this, but, um, I know the state guys was taking cattle out of Keanakolu for their own personal gains. I know something about hunters from Honolulu coming up to Mauna Kea and shooting cattle and I also heard some stuff about state guys shooting cattle and only taking the back straps cause that’s all they wanted for take. Um, you know, it’s kind of one dangerous world we live in right now and a lot – they’re going have repercussions from this – you know the sheep in the long run – that sheep on Mauna Kea on DHHL - that sheep run every day from people. Every day it’s gun fires – it’s madness up there. You don’t know where bullets are going, you don’t know what direction people shooting and the sheep is always \[unclear\] so the sheep are always frightened so when you actually do catch one sheep the animals is full of adrenaline, um, and I’m pretty sure there’s gonna be long term effects on the reproduction systems of the sheep being high stressed all the time. NP: Yeah… GD: Sheep that would be normally giving birth to two a year will drop down to one and then your animal numbers will start dropping down even lower. NP: So no refuge for the animals. 16