WHEREAS
Puna was traditionally a place people came for restoration
and healing, for education, and to learn about and gather
medicinal plants, and as such is one of the most sacred
areas of Hawai'i (originally Hawaiki "the little storage
house of the breath") and WHEREAS
the Puna area contains the only tropical rainforest in the
United States, the natural areas and species here are
precious and pristine and WHEREAS
this region is home to many unique, threatened and
endangered species including the 'A'o bird, the Pueo, 'I'o
Hawk, the Hoary Bat (Hawai'i's only native mammal), along
with dolphins, whales, and Monk seals and many rare plants
and WHEREAS
this beautiful natural treasure hosts a beach where dolphins
and whales come regularly to feed, rest, birth their
children, which is a rare and wonderful event happening in
only a few areas of the entire planet,
and WHEREAS
years of work by the Sirius Insitute and many others have
resulted in a clear and present opportunity to open full
objective communication with the cetaceans (whales and
dolphins) and interspecies concerts at this site and
initiate other worthy projects that will integrate cetacean
and human culture, and use current technologies to raise and
educate children optimally and WHEREAS
scientific reports and anecdotes and other experiences show
that the cetacea are able to restore the wholeness, sanity
and joy of humans, have assisted in the birth and
restoration of children, and have been a delight to humanity
across many ages and cultures,
and WHEREAS
the growing interest in cetaceans has led to whale watching
and other enterprises are already generating
$350,000,000/year to the global economy, (about half that
spent by Japanese alone) and WHEREAS
the Puna area is ideal for the development of these and
similar projects that will bring new and wonderful
developments of interest globally, to Hawai'i,
and WHEREAS
the surrounding culture of Puna and the Red Road has been
alternative powered for 25 years and is inhabited by
Earth-loving people who support and honor all creatures of
the area, and WHEREAS
only the use of sustainable and planet friendly technology
will preserve and enhance this area while maintaining the
Paradise it already is, and WHEREAS
the City of Malibu California has already declared its
coastline a "shared human/cetacean habitat" where the rights
of the cetaceans and the humans to a clean environment and
proper treatment are already established,
and WHEREAS
dolphin researcher Dr. John Lilly and others have proposed
that the United Nations at last recognize the cetaceans as
aware, intelligent, sentient beings entitled to our global
protection and respect and who are entitled to the same
rights and privileges as are human beings,
and WHEREAS
the accomplishment of these goals will provide a model for
planet friendly communities everywhere, where people,
cetaceans, the Earth and nature are all
honored, THEREFORE
we declare that Puna is a now officially recognized as a
Sustainable, Alternate Energy, Child-Centered,
Human/Cetacean Community and THAT
the Kehena Beach area is a Cetacean Embassy where there is
sanctuary and an official embassy for the various species of
cetacean cultures and the humans that choose to interact and
live with them, and further, THAT
existing laws at any level of government that might retard
or prevent such a development be changed and/or eliminated,
and that existing laws protecting our coasts, cultures,
creatures and plants be properly administered, and that
other legislation required to support the above goals be
enacted. WITH
THIS PROCLAMATION we move to an era of
abundance, knowledge and high adventure, bringing the finest
we have to this challenge. Michael
T. Hyson, Ph.D. Sirius
Institute Clich
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