This was a 3-day workshop in Hawaii, hosted by Maui Nui Makai Network and sponsored by the Pew Charities, that brought together 35 people from 18 Pacific islands to discuss their relationship to the ocean and the future of the ocean. The workshop resulted in agreement that the people of Oceania are all related and share the same connection to the ocean and the rest of the natural world.
There was also agreement and a strong commitment that now is the time for them to join together to assert their historical and cultural ties to the Pacific Ocean and protect it in the face of seabed mining and other extractive activities.
