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Who’s defending Papahanaumokuakea Marine?

Marine sanctuary in Hawaii, 362.07M acres, managed by NOAA and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, designated in 2006.

The groups

No group is listed for Papahanaumokuakea Marine yet

A group is listed here only with a source that ties it to Papahanaumokuakea Marine: a court case, its own comment to the agency, its own page, an event on its calendar. None is held yet. That is not the same as nobody fighting.

Your group works here? Add it. Send the page on your group’s own site that says it works on Papahanaumokuakea Marine. A person on the desk reads it before anything lists.

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The situation

What’s happening to Papahanaumokuakea Marine

Sacred to Native Hawaiians, home to monk seals, green sea turtles, and coral reefs untouched by human contact. Papahanaumokuakea stretches across the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands as the most remote marine ecosystem on the planet. On June 11, 2026 a presidential proclamation reopened the world’s largest conservation area to commercial fishing, and Pacific conservation groups have vowed to challenge it in court.

  1. 2006Designated as marine national monument
  2. 2016Expanded to become world's largest marine protected area
  3. 2025Commercial fishing ban lifted in nearby Pacific Remote Islands
  4. 2026Proclamation reopens monument to commercial fishingFederal Register · June 11, 2026

No public comment window is open on Papahanaumokuakea Marine right now. A call script is ready on the Public Lands Action Network, and the groups above are how the fight gets funded and argued in the meantime.

Your move

How to stand for Papahanaumokuakea Marine

SpeakCall your representatives

A ready call script on Papahanaumokuakea Marine, plus any comment window as it opens.

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Every threatened place in the country, tracked, with who stands for each.

Threatened Lands Map

Build my lineup around Papahanaumokuakea Marine: a group in the fight here opens it, and the other seats are the matchmaker’s picks.

Papahanaumokuakea Marine needs groups in the fight.

The work is theirs. The backing is yours.

Every place, state and species
Sources and methodThe situation, timeline, and threats: the MTJP threatened-lands record for Papahanaumokuakea Marine, with per-item sources. Which groups are listed for this place: a group is listed only under a sourced fact, and each chip opens its source. Local means headquartered in the state (the group’s own site, else the legal domicile on its 990) or the place named in its mission on its latest 990. In the fight means a case over the place naming it (the court docket), its own comment on a decision about the place (regulations.gov), an editors’ link with its source or its own page approved by a person here, or events on its own calendar held at the place. No fact, no listing. Org-reported figures are always labeled. Data verified as of 2026-09-28. No group pays to be listed on this page or for where it sits.