{"id":1741,"date":"2026-10-09T02:26:43","date_gmt":"2026-10-09T06:26:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/living.halekulani.com\/?p=1741"},"modified":"2026-10-09T02:29:11","modified_gmt":"2026-10-09T06:29:11","slug":"malama-maunalua","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/living.halekulani.com\/ja\/malama-maunalua\/","title":{"rendered":"\u6075\u307f\u306e\u6d77"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Shaped by rapid urbanization, Maunalua Bay was on an all-too-familiar path of decline. Then, in 2009, the wider world seemed to recognize what community organizers had known was possible for years. That July, Congress provided $3.4 million for the removal of 3 million pounds of invasive algae that had been choking out native seaweed in the bay. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

A hui (group) of longtime residents led the grassroots effort to fill bag after bag with gorilla ogo, prickly seaweed, and leather mudweed. They called themselves M\u0101lama Maunalua in honor of their shared commitment to caring for the bay. \u201cMore than anything, the founding of M\u0101lama Maunalua<\/a> was a responsibility that the people who grew up in this area felt,\u201d says the organization\u2019s executive director, Doug Harper. \u201cAnd it was a love they felt for the area that drove them to do whatever they could to reverse what was happening.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Maunalua Bay stretches for 6 miles along O\u2018ahu\u2019s southeast shore, from Koko Head to L\u0113\u2018ahi (Diamond Head). It was once known for holding the largest fishpond in Hawai\u2018i, a massive loko i\u2018a spanning over 500 acres. But in the middle of the 20th century, American industrialist Henry Kaiser developed the inland area of Maunalua into residential housing. The neighborhood, called Hawaii Kai, replaced family-owned dairies, farms, and ranchlands. Dredging and rock walls transformed the fishponds, and water quality plummeted from the increased development, pesticide runoff, and stream diversion. By 2002, the Hawai\u2018i State Department of Health declared Maunalua Bay an \u201cimpaired water body.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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