Supporters of the Expansion of the Papahānaumokuākea Marine National Monument
to the 200-Nautical-Mile Boundary of the US Exclusive Economic Zone (As of 7.07.16)
TOTAL LETTERS AND PETITION SIGNERS IN SUPPORT OF EXPANSION:
1,038,412+
Online Petitions: 1,030,500+
Mike Coots Shark Petition: 41,500+
Expand PMNM Care2: 3,435+
Jessica Ramos Care2 Petition: 15,200+
AVAAZ Petition: 970,200+
Total hand-signed signatures to the President: 6,090+
Total private citizen support letters to the President: 235
Total scientists joining science letter to the President: 1,500+
Total governmental support letters: 17
Mayors
• Mayor Alan Arakawa, Maui County
• Mayor William Kenoi, Hawaiʻi Island
Council members
• Council Member Valerie T Poindexter, District 1 (Hamakua, Hawaiʻi Island)
• Council Member Karen Eoff, District 8 (North Kona, Hawaiʻi Island)
• Council Member Maile David, District 6 (North Kona (some), South Kona, Ka'u,
Greater Volcano, Hawaiʻi Island)
• Council Member Elle Cochran, West Maui
Hawai‘i State Senators
• Senator Laura Thielen, District 25 (Kailua, Lanikai, Enchanted Lake, Keolu Hills,
Maunawili, Waimanalo, Hawai‘i Kai, Portlock)
• Senator Russell Ruderman, District 2 (Puna – Kaʻu),
• Senator Michael Gabbard, District 20 (Kapolei, Makakilo, Portions of Ewa,
Kalaeloa and Waipahu),
• Senator Josh Green, District 3 (Kona, Ka‘u)
Hawai‘i State Representatives
• Representative Chris Lee, District 51 (Kailua, Waimanalo)
• Representative Cynthia Thielen, District 51 (Kailua, Kaneohe Bay, Hawaiʻi Island)
• Representative John Mizuno, District 28 (Kalihi Valley, Kamehameha Heights,

 portion of Lower Kalihi)
• Representative Kaniela Ing, District 11 (Kihei, Wailea, Makena)
• Representative Matthew LoPresti, District 41 (Ewa, Ewa Beach, Ewa Gentry, Ewa
Villages, Hoakalei, Ocean Pointe)
Total organizational or business support letters: 39
• Northwestern Hawaiian Islands
Native Hawaiian Cultural
Working Group
• Office of Hawaiian Affairs
• Sierra Club of Hawai‘i
• The Pew Charitable Trusts
• Interfaith Power & Light
• Kohanaiki 'Ohana
• Marine Conservation Institute
• Center for Biological Diversity
• Hawai‘i Fishing and Boating
Association
• Hawaiʻi's Thousand Friends
• Earthjustice Mid-Pacific Office
• Friends of Midway Atoll
• Kipuhulu ʻOhana
• Hui Ho’omalu i Ka ‘Aina
• Lost Fish Coalition
• Concerned Elders of Waianae
• Conservation Council for Hawaiʻi
• Earthjustice
• Environmental Caucus
• National Wildlife Federation
• Destination Midway
• Kai Kuleana
• Polanui Hiu CMMA
• Maui Nui Makai Network
• Wailuku CMMA
• Maui Ocean Center
• Maui Nui Seabird Recovery

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Program
Maui Nui Marine Resource Council
Annette’s Adventures
Project S.E.A.-Link
Monk Seal Foundation
Rotary Club of Lahaina Sunset
Turtle Island Restoration Network
Pono Project Hawaiʻi
Makaliʻi Group
Kauaʻi Albatross Network
Humane Society of the United
States
Humane Society International
Animal Welfare Institute
Manta Trust
KAHEA: The Hawaiian
Environmental Alliance
American Reef Coalition
Aloha Hawaiʻi Oni Paʻa
Anthropocene Institute
University of Hawaiʻi Maui
College Student ʻOhana for
Sustainability
Hamakua Renewable Energies
Surfrider Foundation (including
all island chapters)