07-28-2015, 09:34 AM
Thank you all for the good discussion now concerning Hawaii's Wekiu. The wekiu bug was first discovered living by a biologist in 1980 in the three tallest cinder cones atop maunakea. Since then the wekiu bug has been found individually in many other locations across the summit of maunakea, including living under rocks and also other cones up to 3 miles further down slope. Astronomers atop maunakea knew of these first cones that were the home to the wekiu bug, yet where are those tallest cinder cones today? When was the Keck observatory built, when or what year did NASA help fund the side projects for Keck?
Jmo, Just because you find the wekiu individual or possibly displaced does not always equate to more or doing better than before. The TMT projects lawyers only formed or found loopholes to support their own cause to have the wekiu bug taken off the endangered list in my opinion. Millions were spent studying the wekiu, millions were spent to change the wekiu habitat, millions were spent to have the wekiu bug removed from those first cones or be taken off the endangered list. What has been done to protect the wekiu environment or habitat? Building domes in place of cones is not bettering the home of the wekiu, nor was it the intention by the observatory community.
Kapoho joe, I can not just forget about the bug or my home and its people(PW), or the ways they are being treated. Your statement while fair and yours, is appauling and obnoxiously ignorant to the situation. Resorting to calling my wife a clown, while its your opinion it also shows more of your intelligence about our big island brah. I for one am glad this time has come for the Hawaiian people to rise up and take a stand. If not today over this TMT project then when? Jmo here, The people living Hawaii today, also the protection of the living wekiu bug and other organism's atop maunakea are just as important as the foriegn investors projects or money being spent to find the Wekiu cousin on the planets of Pluto or venus.
Jmo, Just because you find the wekiu individual or possibly displaced does not always equate to more or doing better than before. The TMT projects lawyers only formed or found loopholes to support their own cause to have the wekiu bug taken off the endangered list in my opinion. Millions were spent studying the wekiu, millions were spent to change the wekiu habitat, millions were spent to have the wekiu bug removed from those first cones or be taken off the endangered list. What has been done to protect the wekiu environment or habitat? Building domes in place of cones is not bettering the home of the wekiu, nor was it the intention by the observatory community.
Kapoho joe, I can not just forget about the bug or my home and its people(PW), or the ways they are being treated. Your statement while fair and yours, is appauling and obnoxiously ignorant to the situation. Resorting to calling my wife a clown, while its your opinion it also shows more of your intelligence about our big island brah. I for one am glad this time has come for the Hawaiian people to rise up and take a stand. If not today over this TMT project then when? Jmo here, The people living Hawaii today, also the protection of the living wekiu bug and other organism's atop maunakea are just as important as the foriegn investors projects or money being spent to find the Wekiu cousin on the planets of Pluto or venus.