Wildfire Education and ʻĀina Restoration Videos | Mālama Learning Center
Wildfire Education and ʻĀina Restoration Videos is a Mālama Learning Center Vimeo collection exploring wildfire threats, dryland forest decline, native planting, and community restoration in Hawaiʻi. Through educational films, community stories, and practical demonstrations, viewers learn how wildfire prevention and mālama ʻāina can protect native ecosystems and strengthen community resilience.
Wildfire Prevention and Readiness in the Waiʻanae Moku | Mālama Learning Center
Wildfire Prevention and Readiness in the Waiʻanae Moku is an interactive StoryMap exploring wildfire threats, local history, community experiences, and prevention efforts in western Oʻahu. Through maps, images, stories, videos, and preparedness resources, users learn how land management, community partnerships, and individual planning can help make Waiʻanae more wildfire-ready and resilient.
Ola Ka Honua | Auwahi Forest Restoration Project
Ola Ka Honua is an animated documentary inspired by the Auwahi Forest Restoration Project on Maui. It traces the loss of Hawaiʻi’s native forests and the restoration of Auwahi through the efforts of volunteers, conservationists, and a supportive landowner. The film connects native forest recovery with freshwater protection, biodiversity, Hawaiian cultural knowledge, and community kuleana.
Kamehameha Butterfly and the Pulelehua Project | University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa
The Kamehameha Butterfly and the Pulelehua Project is a UH CTAHR educational article about Hawaiʻi’s native state insect and the citizen-science effort to map and protect it. It introduces the butterfly’s life cycle, host plants, threats, and habitat needs while encouraging learners to submit observations and support recovery through native planting. The resource is especially useful for classroom learning, conservation education, and community science projects.
Field Trips | Waikōloa Dry Forest Initiative
Wiliwili Legacy Initiative | Waikōloa Dry Forest Initiative
Wiliwili Legacy Initiative is a community science mapping project from the Waikōloa Dry Forest Initiative that helps users document and care for planted wiliwili trees across Hawaiʻi. Developed with Waikōloa middle school computer science students, it includes a public map, dashboard, and planting guidance to support conservation, stewardship, and data collection. The resource connects dry forest restoration with citizen science, student learning, and the cultural importance of wiliwili.
Future Foresters | Waikōloa Dry Forest Initiative
Future Foresters is a place-based after-school stewardship program from the Waikōloa Dry Forest Initiative for elementary students in Waikōloa. Through hiking, restoration work, nursery care, and community service, students learn about dry forest ecology, native species, and conservation within a biocultural context. The program builds long-term relationships to place and encourages keiki to become active stewards of the ʻāina.
Harold L. Lyon Arboretum | A University of Hawaii Research Unit
informational page about Lyon Arboretum
Stewardship Opportunities | Conservation Connections
Conservation Connections, powered by the Hawaiʻi Conservation Alliance and its Foundation, is the leading hub in Hawaiʻi for connecting people with environmental stewardship opportunities. Launched in 2013, it aggregates over 200 programs—spanning volunteer, internship, and career listings—in real time to foster ʻāina-based engagement across islands. It attracts more than 25,000 visitors annually.
