Local artist Ron Artis has placed a large painting in memory of Laniakea turtle "Honey Girl" at the Art...is Gallery in Haleiwa, Hawaii. Photo by: Ron Artis ll- www.ronartis.com
HONEY GIRL REWARD FUND:
ALOHA! Welcome to the Honey Girl Reward Fund. This website is dedicated to the life of an amazing and beloved Hawaiian Honu giant green sea turtle named "Honey Girl." Recently, on Saturday July 19th, 2008 Honey Girl was savagely murdered and mutilated on Laniakea Beach in Oahu, Hawaii. You can make a difference by bringing Honey Girl's killer to justice...we are accepting donations to make a reward for information that leads to the capture and conviction of Honey Girl's killer. You can help us protect and preserve the lives of other Hawaiian Honu giant green sea turtles- right here, right now. Please make a donation, email us or call us or authorities with information (totally confidential- your identity is kept private and safe), link to this site, or even contribute to this site with photos, stories, and information about Honey Girl or other Hawaiian Honu giant green sea turtles. Sign and read Honey Girl's GuestBook, discuss your views and thoughts and voice your opinions on our Message Board, join our Mailing List, and please make a Donation. We need your help to ensure that this tragedy never happens again...Please help the turtles now...Donate now! MAHALO!
Honey Girl- We'll protect your friends...Honey Girl photo courtesy of Patrick Doyle
THE OTHER TURTLES MISS HER- THE MAGICAL STORY OF KUHINA:
Kuhina, a male Hawaiian Honu giant green sea turtle and Honey Girl's friend, saddly and slowly crawled from the waters of the ocean to lament the loss of his close friend. He sat at her grave and memorial for hours, longingly staring at her picture, with a perceivable air of grief and remorse. Onlookers commented that it was the saddest and most heart touching moment that they had ever witnessed...
THE HISTORY OF HONEY GIRL: " Honey Girl, one of Laniakea's twenty four resident baskers, began regularly hauling out onto the North Shore beach in 2005. As the largest adult female turtle of our Ohana (family), Honey Girl weighed approximately 250 pounds and was about 35-40 years old. Before coming to Laniakea, Honey Girl was known to the marine scientists on East Island in the French Frigate Shoals (the largest atoll in the Northwest Hawaiian Islands). In 2000 she migrated 500 miles from Oahu to East Island to mate and nest. While there, the researchers implanted a microchip, the size of a grain of rice, into her left hind flipper. This PIT (Passive Integrated Transponder) has allowed the scientists to identify her throughout the Hawaiian Archipelago, as she migrated from the foraging areas of the Main Hawaiian Islands to the nesting beaches of the Northwest Hawaiian Islands. Honey Girl was also known by her Hawaiian name of "Hone U'i", because of her exquisite honey amber shell, and L-20, as she was the twentieth turtle to habitually come ashore at Laniakea Beach to bask. Data collected by the dedicated Malama na Honu, The Honu Guardians, reveals that Honey Girl basked on the beach 11% of each year. On July 19, 2008 Honey Girl was discovered slaughtered at Laniakea Beach. The evening before, this innocent, defenseless turtle had been basking under the full moon. The outcry of this tragedy has reverberated across the nation and our Malama na Honu fellowship is presently being lifted by a positive and honorable change in tide."
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EVERYONE MISSES HONEY GIRL:
Suzanne Roig of the Honolulu Advertiser reported...The turtle, one of a group of 20 that regularly comes to bask in the sun on the beach commonly called "Turtle Beach," had its shell and head cut off and was missing a flipper, said Patrick Doyle, project coordinator for Malama Na Honu, a volunteer group of turtle guardians.
"It was slaughtered," Doyle said. "Her name was Honey Girl and she was a regular at Laniakea Beach."
"We were all in tears. She came up almost daily."
The 200-pound female sea turtle was found partially buried in the sand. She is thought to be about 30 years old, a turtle in the prime of her reproductive life.
Please help us honor her and help us protect her friends...
Honey Girl, once beautiful and full of life...
MAKE AN ONLINE DONATION NOW:
MOTION DYNAMICS, LLC (motiondynamics™) and PayPal are the official and authorized online donation processors for the Honey Girl Reward Fund. Your payment is encrypted, private, safe, secure, and tax deductible. Please honor Honey Girl and help us protect the other Honu turtles. We need your help... PLEASE DONATE NOW!
Location on Laniakea Beach where Honey Girl's body was found...
YOU CAN MAKE A DIFFERENCE:
Make your tax-deductable donations to the Honey Girl Reward Fund (graciously serviced by the Not-For-Profit 501(c)(3) organization, Save the Sea Turtles International, Inc. (Federal Tax ID: 99-0344732) and administered by turtle protector, Warren Scoville)...
MAIL DONATIONS TO:
Honey Girl Reward Fund c/o Warren Scoville P.O. Box 859 Waialua, HI 96791
NUMBERS TO CALL:
Honey Girl Confidential Information Line: 808-528-6868 To contact Warren Scoville, call 808-637-3449 or fax 808-637-9275. To contact Marlu West with Save the Sea Turtles International, Inc., call 808-637-2211. To report a marine turtle stranding or sighting, call 808-983-5730. Anyone with information about the death of the turtle should call 808-643-DLNR (Department of Land and Natural Resources). To contact the Federal Enforcement Hotline for NOAA (The National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration) call 800-853-1964. To contact the State Enforcement Hotline for DOCARE (The Department of Conservation and Resource Enforcement) call 808-587-0077.
E-MAIL US:
info@honeygirlrewardfund.com
NEWS FLASH:
The reward is going up! As of today August 10th, 2008, the reward stands at current total of:$5,000.00! To date, we have raised over $12,500.00! The additional funds will be used for public education and protection of the turtles.
HONEY GIRL REWARD POSTER:
The following full color Honey Girl Reward Poster ran as a 1/2 page ad in the Honolulu Star Bulletin on Sunday 8-10-08 and will be running in the MidWeek Newspaper on 8-13-08 and our black & white version will run in the North Shore News on 8-15-08...
HONEY GIRL REWARD POSTER
HELP US SPREAD THE WORD:
Click on the PDF files below and print out your own Honey Girl Reward Posters- post as many as you can around town. With your help, we can make a difference. MAHALO!
World-Record holding scuba diver, videographer, and photographer Doug "Shaka" Corbin of the "Shaka Divers" took the following amazing underwater video footage of Hawaiian Honu turtles at play ...
HONEY GIRL TOUCHED MANY HEARTS:
Hawaiian real estate icon Celeste "Sally" Cheeseman donated the following Honu photos...Thanks Sally! You can read Sally's blog about Honey Girl here:Sally's Honey Girl Blog
Hawaiian Honu giant green sea turtle photo courtesy of Celeste Cheeseman
Hawaiian Honu giant green sea turtle photo courtesy of Celeste Cheeseman
PLEASE HELP US:
The other North Shore, "Turtle Beach," Honu need your help. Please help us protect them... The following amazing photos were donated by Richard Baccigaluppi of the UNDER MY WING FOUNDATION...Scroll down to view the awesome slideshow...
