Then-graduate student at UH Hilo and HWF intern on Hawai‘i Island, Leah Sherwood, writes about her colorful experience in this guest blog: “A beach cleanup on the southern coast of the island of Hawai‘i” from March 2019.
Welcome to Lāʻau Letters: Native Plants of Kaʻū. Read about Kaʻū's native plants and their moʻolelo (stories), uses, preferred habitats, and opportunities to adopt them for stewardship. This column seeks to encourage making new plant friends and to reunite with others.
Welcome to Lāʻau Letters: Native Plants of Kaʻū. Read about Kaʻū's native plants and their moʻolelo (stories), uses, preferred habitats, and opportunities to adopt them for stewardship. This column seeks to encourage making new plant friends and to reunite with others.
Monk seals are uncommon but truly esteemed guests along the Kaʻū coastline, and have been occasionally sited at Honu‘apo, and also in the recent past by Hawai‘i Wildlife Fund and Ala Kahakai Trails Association volunteers at Kāwā, Kalihipali, Waiʻōhinu, Kiolaka‘a, and Kamā‘oa.
Welcome to the second edition of Lāʻau Letters! Read about Kaʻū’s native plants’ moʻolelo (stories), uses, preferred habitats, and opportunities to adopt them for stewardship. This column seeks to encourage making new plant friends and to reunite with others.
HWF and friends help Love The Sea hard-to-reach cleanup recover nearly 5 tons of plastic debris from Kahakuloa, Maui.
A total of 276 sea turtle strandings were documented on Maui in 2020, a nearly 100 percent increase from 2019, according to data from the Maui Ocean Center Marine Institute.
Our HWF team has been working to protect and restore habitats along the Waiʻōhinu coastal strand for nearly two decades. Learn more about these efforts and how to get involved!
HWF President and Program Director, Megan Lamson, checks in about wildlife and debris statistics of our 4-island partnership after the first two years.
