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From: Liz M <br /> To: WPCtestimony <br /> Subject: Save Hawaii <br /> Date: Tuesday, March 12,2024 9:45:42 PM <br /> Aloha, <br /> Please deny the Shoreline Management Area/SMA permit extension for Black Sands Beach <br /> LLC at Punalu'u". Mahalo for your time! BE SURE to TELL Your Hawaii Island Friends & <br /> give 'em the info!!!! Swamp their inbox! :) Your email can be longer than the short one if you <br /> want and include any of these points: Punalu`u means diving springs. Wai ola, water is life. <br /> Wai from the mauka aquifers feeds the ponds at Punalu`u . The fish are plentiful in the <br /> brackish water of Punalu`u bay. Home to the threatened Honu, Green Sea Turtle who loves to <br /> bask on the warn sand. Blanket statement for use in written testimony to help save this beach: <br /> use what you wish in your testimony, Thank you! The daily impact to the environment of <br /> hundreds of people traversing on the tiny beach, taking sand and iliili pebbles is inevitable, if <br /> this development is approved. A corporation will be encroaching upon the fragile and pristine <br /> ecosystem of Punalu`u Bay and Black Sand beach and Ninole Cove. This would be very <br /> detrimental to the indigenous and endemic animal habitats , native flora and fauna and the <br /> freshwater springs that is the life for us all. The native Loulu Palm tree, native hawaiian <br /> poppy, Pua Kala and the Native cotton plant 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. Do not approve the SMA permit to allow these new <br /> developers to use and desecrate the wahi kapu of Punalu`u. <br /> Mahalo, <br /> Liz <br />