Webinar: Pacific Remote Islands Marine National Monument Renaming

Are you interested in the renaming process for the Pacific Remote Islands Marine National Monument? Join us to learn more about the collaborative renaming process and our recommendations for renaming. 

We will also share how these recommendations were informed by the Udall Foundation’s renaming assessment and culture recognition report, along with input collected from attendees at the recent Festival of the Pacific Arts and Culture (FestPAC) in Honolulu.

Attend the Webinar

• American Samoa: 12 p.m. SST on Monday, August 19, 2024
• Hawai‘i: 1 p.m. HST on Monday, August 19, 2024
• Guam and the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands:  9 a.m. ChST on Tuesday, August 20, 2024
• Registration link

Webinar Hosts

NOAA, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, and the Udall Foundation 

Background

Following the President’s direction, the Department of Commerce and the Department of the Interior are conducting a public process to work with regional Indigenous cultural leaders to appropriately rename the existing Pacific Remote Islands National Monument—and potentially the Islands themselves. The renaming will honor the area’s heritage, ancestral pathways, and stopping points for Pacific Island voyagers, and provide posthumous recognition for young Native Hawaiian men sent to secure U.S. territorial claim to the islands in the run up to World War II.

The Pacific Remote Islands National Marine Monument is cooperatively managed by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, on behalf of the Department of Interior, and by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, on behalf of the Department of Commerce.

Learn more about the renaming process

Questions?

Please contact Malia Chow, Chief, NOAA Fisheries Pacific Marine National Monuments Program, at (808) 725-5015, if you have questions about the webinar.