Jeff Davis'
Hawaii's Tomorrow Talk Radio ~ AM760

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The show will discuss the rampant coral disease threatening Kauai's coastline. Terry has some very interesting guests lined up for this week's show. Rubellite Kawena Johnson, who has been named a "Living Hawaiian Treasure" will be on the show. She will talk  about how important the coral reefs are in Hawaii and how they came to be in the Hawaiian Hymn of Creation, The Kumulipo.

We will also talk about how important our coastal wetlands are to the health of our sea and coral reefs. Our second guest will be Les Iczkovitz, an environmental attorney from Honolulu. Les and I will talk about the Endangered Species Act and how this law has been ignored in Kauai and how altering the wetlands has harmed the reefs. We will also talk about the changes needed, if we are going to save the reefs in the Hawaiian Islands.

We will have Christina Runyon from UH talking about the research going on at the University trying to understand how our dangerous coral disease grows and spreads in the lab and how this science can help us understand how to stop this disease on our reefs here in Kauai.

I will talk about the need for funding for our coral disease research project and our need to do extensive chemical testing on the reefs, in Hanalei Bay and in the rivers to try and find out what is causing this disease to spread so rapidly. I will also be  introducing our new grant proposal to be released for funding this needed project. U2W GRANT

Olelo, Oahu's Public Television non-profit, will be televising this week's program. I will be hosting this show on a weekly basis to inform the community about this alarming coral disease.

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Jeff thought this last show was one of his best, and it had a nice touch of ohana. Finally after years of coercion, Rubelite Johnson, Jeff's mother-in-law, appeared in person on the show and spoke of her youth on Kauai and the reverence the ancients had for the sea and its reef ecology. Jeff's daughter made a surprise call-in to say hi to tutu. Soon-to-be Dr. Christina Runyon added the laboratory perspective, praising Terry's vast video library in tracing the pathology of this disease. And finally, environmental lawyer Les Iczkovitz spoke about moving past the finger-pointing and blame to work together to clean up our ecological messes.

Terry Lilley

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