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<br /> <br />Proposed Changes to the Glossary: <br />Ahupua’a is a Hawaiian word that means a land division usually extending from the uplands to the sea, <br />so called because the boundary was marked by a heap (ahu) of stones surmounted by an image of a pig <br />(puaʻa), or because a pig or other tribute was laid on the altar as tax to the chief. The landlord or owner <br />of an ahupuaʻa might be a konohiki. <br />An Ahupua’a is a Native Hawaiian socio-economic system that functioned to maintain and <br />perpetuate the health and well-being of the ecology within strips of land running from the sea to <br />the mountains and containing a sea fishery and sea beach, a stretch of kula or open cultivatable <br />land and higher up its forest. All ahupua’a have specific names and definite boundaries <br />delineated by drystack stone walls or by natural features, such as gulches, ridges and streams. <br />Hoaʻāina or native tenants live within ahupua’a with rights to access both government and <br />privately owned land for traditional and customary Native Hawaiian subsistence, cultural, and <br />religious purposes. <br /> <br />Collaborative Biocultural Stewardship represents an approach to sustainable development that <br />emphasizes collaboration and partnership building among stakeholders and refers to the integration of <br />cultural and natural resource management strategies to promote <br />conservation, sustainability, and resilience. <br />represents an approach to sustainable development that highlights integration of cultural and <br />natural resource management strategies to promote conservation, sustainability, and resilience. It <br />is part of the larger effort to restore ʻāina momona (fertile life of the land), with some focus on <br />the management of forest, streams, wildlife, nearshore fisheries, traditional crop diversity, <br />traditional food systems, and health and wellness; as well as the legal and policy steps needed to <br />build a foundation that can facilitate this change. \[Journal of Sustainability, “Biocultural <br />Restoration in Hawai’i”\] <br /> <br />Proposed Policy and Action Additions: <br /> <br />Under Collaborative Biocultural Stewardship Objective 1, “Increase the biodiversity and <br />resilience of native habitats,” add the following POLICIES: <br /> <br /> Support and collaborate with the county Game Management Advisory Commission to <br />conserve and protect the natural and cultural resources in furtherance of the self-sufficiency <br />and long-term subsistence sustainability of aquatic life and wildlife in the County. \[county <br />Charter\] <br /> Encourage the sustainable development of the fishing industry, various forms of aquaculture <br />and other fresh and sea water-based activities.\[current General Plan\] <br /> Coordinate programs to protect natural resources with other government agencies. \[current <br />General Plan\] <br /> Develop policies by which Native Hawaiian gathering rights will be protected as identified <br />under judicial decisions. \[current General Plan\] <br /> Protect all rights, customarily and traditionally exercised for subsistence, cultural, and <br />religious purposes and possessed by ahupua’a tenants who are descendants of Native <br />4 <br /> <br /> <br />