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

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

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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

The birds help pollinate Hawaii's native plants, eat insects and support the forest. Those forests also filter the rainfall that provides drinking water to many communities. Sponsor Message As ...

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 ...

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 ...

Invasive vegetation was replaced with native trees and plants ... an urban and community forester at the Hawaii Department of Land and Natural Resources. In 2022, she nominated Ms. Jackson ...