The Center for Biological Diversity has filed a legal intervention opposing a proposed resort development on one of Hawaiʻi’s most renowned black sand beaches that would harm local residents and jeopardize threatened and endangered species, including green sea turtles and Hawaiian monk seals.
Jaya Mishra was an intern with the Hawai’i Wildlife Fund team on Maui from June to July 2023. Here is her wonderful account of her experience with HWF.
With funding and support from the National Oceanographic & Atmospheric Association (NOAA), Hawaiʻi Wildlife Fund recently reached a major milestone in its collaborative project with the Surfrider Foundation (Kauaʻi Chapter), SHARKastics, and many other community partners. During this extensive two-year project across three Hawaiian Islands, we collaboratively hosted a total of 390 debris-removal activities and we recovered 61.0 metric tons (134,423 pounds) of marine debris!
Learn more about the experience of Hawaiʻi Wildlife Fund Intern, Ramzi Talbi, who joined our team all the way from Patagonia and helped support the Hawksbill (Honuʻea) Sea Turtle Recovery project.
Welcome to Lāʻau Letters: Native Plants of Kaʻū. Read about Kaʻū’s native plants’ moʻolelo (stories), uses, preferred habitats, and opportunities to adopt them for stewardship. Meet loulu! Loulu (not to be confused with loʻulu, the name of the endemic fern Coniogramme pilosa), is the name for all species of the only native Hawaiian palms, which are perhaps the most distinctive and conspicuous native plants.
Check out this inspiring essay from our third and final Kaʻū Wildlife Scholarship winner for 2023, Adam Dierking.
Learn more about Alex Xia's experience during his Hawaiʻi Wildlife Fund internship, which unfortunately encompassed the devastating wild fires in Lahaina, Mauʻi. Not only did Alex help make our sea turtle recovery project a success, he helped support our Maui community following the fires.
Learn more about Pippin Paulson's amazing experience as a Hawaiʻi Wildlife Fund intern, where she supporting our sea turtle recovery projects in both 2019 and 2023 and helped support our community on Maui during the 2023 Lahaina wild fires.
Did you know that HWF's Hawaiʻi Island team works in classrooms around the island to educate keiki / ʻōpio on different conservation-related topics? In December, HWF was able to launch their waterbird curriculum into all three second grade classrooms at Nāʻālehu Elementary School!
HWF intern, Hannah Pond, reflects on her experience over the summer of 2023 on Maui.
