Maui County water supply director John Stufflebean wants a new ordinance that provides a reduced rate for qualified native ...

Native trees are an essential part of Hawai‘i’s ecosystem, but they’re rapidly vanishing statewide, says Travis Idol, a professor of tropical forestry and agroforestry at UH Mānoa. He says multiple ...

Dozens of volunteers and community members placed 344 native plants along a stretch of Kailua Beach on Saturday to mitigate ...

Ed Case and Jill Tokuda to protect Hawaii’s native plants and animals. The Hawaii Native Species Conservation and Recovery ...

Kona coffee, pineapples and macadamia nuts have become such iconic Hawaiian commodities, it’s easy to forget none are native species. They, along with plumeria, liliko‘i and other plants, were ...

kāhuli — Hawaii's native tree snails. The colorful, jewel-like snails were once so abundant, it's said they were like Christmas ornaments covering the trees. Almost all of the 750 different ...

For lei makers, making lei from native plants and ensuring native populations ... nurture populations of the threatened plant. Many of Hawaii’s most iconic lei are made from flowers introduced ...

In searching for people to talk to about the ulu trees that once defined Lāhainā, KHON2.com couldn’t find anyone who would discuss the subject with us. Get Hawaii’s latest morning news ...

Though Hawaii makes up less than 1% of U.S. land, it contains 44% of the country’s endangered and threatened plant life. While some native plants can gradually recover from wildfires of this ...