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This concurrent resolution urges the Department of Land and Natural Resources (DLNR) to develop a game management plan that prioritizes ethical approaches to controlling wildlife populations. The resolution draws on existing Hawaii Revised Statutes (Chapter 183D) and recent legislation (Act 315 from 2022) that emphasize sustainable hunting, food security, and ecosystem management. Specifically, the resolution highlights concerns that the DLNR might be using unethical methods to control game populations in sensitive watershed areas, and calls for the department to focus on hunting and other humane population control strategies. The resolution requests that the DLNR create a management plan incorporating ethical means of game population control as part of its broader sustainability efforts, and directs that a certified copy of the resolution be sent to the Chairperson of the Board of Land and Natural Resources for consideration.

Agriculture and Natural Resources

https://www.capitol.hawaii.gov/session/measure_indiv.aspx?billtype=SCR&billnumber=237&year=2025