The Malama Kai Foundation, in partnership with the Hawaii Departments
of Land and Natural Resources (DLNR) and Business, Economic Development
and Tourism (DBEDT), has sponsored the Adopt-a-Buoy Program since
1991. Individuals and organizations make donations to the Adopt-a-Buoy
Program through the Malama Kai Foundation to support the installation
and maintenance of day-use mooring buoys around the State. The
buoys are installed by trained volunteers at sites already approved
for moorings to help minimize anchor damage to fragile coral
reef areas. Contributors receive a certificate of adoption and,
for donations over $500, are recognized on a plaque located at
DLNR Headquarters in Honolulu.
Donors may specify the island for which they would like their
contribution to apply. An adopted buoy will be placed at a site
already approved for a mooring. Donors may pick which of these
sites they want for their adopted buoy, but this will not give
them any more right to use the mooring than any other user. The
buoys are placed at heavily-used areas, and access to these buoys
is on a first-come first-served basis.
There are three classes of contribution:
Butterfly Fish Class - Donation of $250
Your donation will pay for the mooring materials and installation of one mooring.
You will receive a pewter pin and a certificate of adoption.
Triggerfish Class - Donation of $500
Your donation will pay for the installation, monitoring and maintenance of
a buoy for one year. You will receive a pewter pin, certificate of adoption,
and your name will appear on a recognition plaque at DLNR Headquarters.
Sea Turtle Class - Donation of $750
Your donation will pay for the materials, installation, monitoring and maintenance
of a buoy for five years. You will receive a pewter pin, certificate of adoption,
and your name will appear on a recognition plaque at DNLR Headquarters. If
you want, your name will appear on the Malama Kai Foundation website, with
a link
to your
webpage.
Day
Use Buoy Overview
Anchialine
ponds are one of Hawaii’s most threatened ecosystems.
