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From: Briana Spangler <br /> To: W PCtesti mony <br /> Subject: Please deny the Shoreline Management Area/SMA permit extension for Black Sands Beach LLC at Punalu"u <br /> Date: Monday,March 11, 2024 7:19:51 AM <br /> Punalu`u means diving springs. Wai ola, water is life. Wai from the mauka aquifers feeds the <br /> ponds at Punalu`u . The fish are plentiful in the brackish water of Punalu`u bay. Home to the <br /> threatened Honu, Green Sea Turtle who loves to bask on the warm sand. <br /> Blanket statement for use in written testimony to help save this beach: use what you wish in <br /> your testimony, Thank you! <br /> The daily impact to the environment of hundreds of people traversing on the tiny beach, <br /> taking sand and iliili pebbles is inevitable, if this development is approved. A corporation will <br /> be encroaching upon the fragile and pristine ecosystem of Punalu`u Bay and Black Sand beach <br /> and Ninole Cove. <br /> This would be very detrimental to the indigenous and endemic animal habitats , native flora <br /> and fauna and the freshwater springs that is the life for us all. <br /> The native Loulu Palm tree, native hawaiian poppy, Pua Kala and the Native cotton plant <br /> Ma`o important to the fauna ecosystem there. <br /> Endangered species live here including the `Ope`apea the native Hawaiian Hoary bat, the <br /> Honu`ea Hawksbill Turtle who lay their eggs and build nests on the sand, the `ilioholoikauaua <br /> monk seal,the native damselfly, the Koloa duck,Nene the Hawaiian goose , `auku`u, the Pueo <br /> native Hawaiian Owl, the Io native hawaiian hawk and many rare varieties of limu, ko`ele, <br /> opihi. The Nai`a spinner dolphin, porpoise, Kohola Humpback whale, Sperm whale, various <br /> species of Mano shark and pilot whales are a few of the sea creatures that inhabit the waters in <br /> and around Punalu`u and Ninole bays. <br /> Do not approve the SMA permit to allow these new developers to use and desecrate the wahi <br /> kapu of Punalu`u <br />