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Following the close of the 2026 Hawai‘i State Legislative Session, we’re excited to see the first year of annual Green Fee funding move towards execution. HB1800, which details the state budget for FY2027, includes $129 million in funding collected by the Green Fee. The legislative process resulted in a slate of funding that covers a wide range of activities for conservation, tourism and other legislator priorities. In this first year, we’ll see over $64 million in new funding for the state Department of Land and Natural Resources, including funding for community stewardship of forests, wetlands, coral reefs and nearshore environments. As this funding moves towards implementation, our conservation teams will work closely with our partners in the state government to find where TNC is a strong fit to help implement these important programs.

Care for ʻĀina Now

📸 : Mike Neal

TNC Micronesia & Polynesia's new Executive Director, Keobel “KB” Sakuma, was recently interviewed on Hawaiʻi Public Radio!

In this interview, KB speaks with HPR’s Maddie Bender about his professional career journey, as well as his priorities for land and marine conservation in the Pacific.

Listen to the full interview at the link in our bio.

🪸 One day, across the Indo‑Pacific, something remarkable happened: Porites rus corals spawned in near‑perfect synchrony - releasing eggs and sperm into the water at nearly the same time of day across hundreds of reefs spanning about 15,000 km (9,300 miles), more than a third of Earth’s circumference.

Porites rus is a common reef‑building coral across the Indo‑Pacific, capable of forming large, resilient colonies that can thrive across a wide range of environments. Notably, it spawns during the day, which makes synchronized observation much simpler.

At Palmyra Atoll, The Nature Conservancy's conservation science volunteers, Devon Fischer and Katie Baur, joined a global effort to observe and document the event.

“The level of synchrony is truly mind‑blowing,” says Dr. Joe Pollock, senior reef strategy lead. “It’s a powerful illustration of just how connected the world’s reef systems really are.”

This global spawning observation effort was launched in 2025 by Tama no te Tairoto (Tahitian for "Children of the Lagoon") as a citizen science project. These observations are revealing just how predictable these spawning events may be across the Pacific, while helping scientists understand coral reef connectivity at a truly global scale.

📸 : 1 - Pauline Legrand
2 & 3 - Vetea Liao

🪸 One day, across the Indo‑Pacific, something remarkable happened: Porites rus corals spawned in near‑perfect synchrony - releasing eggs and sperm into the water at nearly the same time of day across hundreds of reefs spanning about 15,000 km (9,300 miles), more than a third of Earth’s circumference.

Porites rus is a common reef‑building coral across the Indo‑Pacific, capable of forming large, resilient colonies that can thrive across a wide range of environments. Notably, it spawns during the day, which makes synchronized observation much simpler.

At Palmyra Atoll, The Nature Conservancy's conservation science volunteers, Devon Fischer and Katie Baur, joined a global effort to observe and document the event.

“The level of synchrony is truly mind‑blowing,” says Dr. Joe Pollock, senior reef strategy lead. “It’s a powerful illustration of just how connected the world’s reef systems really are.”

This global spawning observation effort was launched in 2025 by Tama no te Tairoto (Tahitian for "Children of the Lagoon") as a citizen science project. These observations are revealing just how predictable these spawning events may be across the Pacific, while helping scientists understand coral reef connectivity at a truly global scale.

📸 : 1 - Pauline Legrand
2 & 3 - Vetea Liao

🪸 One day, across the Indo‑Pacific, something remarkable happened: Porites rus corals spawned in near‑perfect synchrony - releasing eggs and sperm into the water at nearly the same time of day across hundreds of reefs spanning about 15,000 km (9,300 miles), more than a third of Earth’s circumference.

Porites rus is a common reef‑building coral across the Indo‑Pacific, capable of forming large, resilient colonies that can thrive across a wide range of environments. Notably, it spawns during the day, which makes synchronized observation much simpler.

At Palmyra Atoll, The Nature Conservancy's conservation science volunteers, Devon Fischer and Katie Baur, joined a global effort to observe and document the event.

“The level of synchrony is truly mind‑blowing,” says Dr. Joe Pollock, senior reef strategy lead. “It’s a powerful illustration of just how connected the world’s reef systems really are.”

This global spawning observation effort was launched in 2025 by Tama no te Tairoto (Tahitian for "Children of the Lagoon") as a citizen science project. These observations are revealing just how predictable these spawning events may be across the Pacific, while helping scientists understand coral reef connectivity at a truly global scale.

📸 : 1 - Pauline Legrand
2 & 3 - Vetea Liao

Sprawling across 590 acres on the west side of Lānaʻi, Kānepuʻu Preserve was created in 1991 to protect the largest remnants of olopua/lama dryland forest in Hawaiʻi. It’s home to over 40 different species of native plants, including the rare hibiscus ma‘o hau hele and trees like the lama, a native ebony, and ʻaiea, once used to build the canoes that sustained many area fishing villages.

Learn more about Kānepuʻu Preserve at https://nature.ly/3P208RL

📸 : TNC

Sprawling across 590 acres on the west side of Lānaʻi, Kānepuʻu Preserve was created in 1991 to protect the largest remnants of olopua/lama dryland forest in Hawaiʻi. It’s home to over 40 different species of native plants, including the rare hibiscus ma‘o hau hele and trees like the lama, a native ebony, and ʻaiea, once used to build the canoes that sustained many area fishing villages.

Learn more about Kānepuʻu Preserve at https://nature.ly/3P208RL

📸 : TNC

Sprawling across 590 acres on the west side of Lānaʻi, Kānepuʻu Preserve was created in 1991 to protect the largest remnants of olopua/lama dryland forest in Hawaiʻi. It’s home to over 40 different species of native plants, including the rare hibiscus ma‘o hau hele and trees like the lama, a native ebony, and ʻaiea, once used to build the canoes that sustained many area fishing villages.

Learn more about Kānepuʻu Preserve at https://nature.ly/3P208RL

📸 : TNC

A little foraging time. And a little chit chat.

The humble stretch of Maui forest on the slopes of Haleakalā continues to be graced with the presence of ʻalalā. Through the passing weeks & months of this year and a half journey, the five ʻalalā on the landscape continue to thrive.
We love watching these beauties foraging for a wide variety of forest foods. And the vocalizing. We love that too.

It’s nesting season and the field team reports that the paired birds are regularly moving sticks around — potential nest building endeavors. We will see. And we will keep you posted!

🎥 MFBRP
#nature #birds #hawaii #wildlife #love

Just beginning their journey!

From Hawaiʻi to Palmyra, these little ones are figuring things out in real time, and the reefs and coastlines they grow up in only work if we take care of them.

📸 : 1 - Kydd Pollock
2 - Erik Oberg/Island Conservation
3 - TNC
4 - Andrew Wright
5 - Grady Timmons
6 - Wailana Moses
7 - Bryan Shirota
8 - Kydd Pollock

Just beginning their journey!

From Hawaiʻi to Palmyra, these little ones are figuring things out in real time, and the reefs and coastlines they grow up in only work if we take care of them.

📸 : 1 - Kydd Pollock
2 - Erik Oberg/Island Conservation
3 - TNC
4 - Andrew Wright
5 - Grady Timmons
6 - Wailana Moses
7 - Bryan Shirota
8 - Kydd Pollock

Just beginning their journey!

From Hawaiʻi to Palmyra, these little ones are figuring things out in real time, and the reefs and coastlines they grow up in only work if we take care of them.

📸 : 1 - Kydd Pollock
2 - Erik Oberg/Island Conservation
3 - TNC
4 - Andrew Wright
5 - Grady Timmons
6 - Wailana Moses
7 - Bryan Shirota
8 - Kydd Pollock

Just beginning their journey!

From Hawaiʻi to Palmyra, these little ones are figuring things out in real time, and the reefs and coastlines they grow up in only work if we take care of them.

📸 : 1 - Kydd Pollock
2 - Erik Oberg/Island Conservation
3 - TNC
4 - Andrew Wright
5 - Grady Timmons
6 - Wailana Moses
7 - Bryan Shirota
8 - Kydd Pollock

Just beginning their journey!

From Hawaiʻi to Palmyra, these little ones are figuring things out in real time, and the reefs and coastlines they grow up in only work if we take care of them.

📸 : 1 - Kydd Pollock
2 - Erik Oberg/Island Conservation
3 - TNC
4 - Andrew Wright
5 - Grady Timmons
6 - Wailana Moses
7 - Bryan Shirota
8 - Kydd Pollock

Just beginning their journey!

From Hawaiʻi to Palmyra, these little ones are figuring things out in real time, and the reefs and coastlines they grow up in only work if we take care of them.

📸 : 1 - Kydd Pollock
2 - Erik Oberg/Island Conservation
3 - TNC
4 - Andrew Wright
5 - Grady Timmons
6 - Wailana Moses
7 - Bryan Shirota
8 - Kydd Pollock

Just beginning their journey!

From Hawaiʻi to Palmyra, these little ones are figuring things out in real time, and the reefs and coastlines they grow up in only work if we take care of them.

📸 : 1 - Kydd Pollock
2 - Erik Oberg/Island Conservation
3 - TNC
4 - Andrew Wright
5 - Grady Timmons
6 - Wailana Moses
7 - Bryan Shirota
8 - Kydd Pollock

Just beginning their journey!

From Hawaiʻi to Palmyra, these little ones are figuring things out in real time, and the reefs and coastlines they grow up in only work if we take care of them.

📸 : 1 - Kydd Pollock
2 - Erik Oberg/Island Conservation
3 - TNC
4 - Andrew Wright
5 - Grady Timmons
6 - Wailana Moses
7 - Bryan Shirota
8 - Kydd Pollock

The Olowalu-Ukumehame coastline of West Maui is eroding at an alarming rate, caused by rising sea levels, stronger storms and seasonal high tides and surf. As the shoreline erodes, Honoapi‘ilani Highway gets flooded and damaged, which can cause sediment and road materials to wash into the ocean and harm the nearshore Olowalu reef.

Rather than hardening the shoreline with seawalls or rock revetments, which can increase erosion and lead to beach loss, planting native coastal plants is a nature-based solution that can enhance sand dune formation and protect modern infrastructure. To learn more about how we can help to stabilize the sandy beach at Ukumehame Beach Park (traditionally known a Pāko’a), we are working on a pilot project with Hawaiʻi Sea Grant, the County of Maui, and Elizabeth Allen, a graduate student from the University of Hawaiʻi at Hilo. In two experimental plots, we removed invasive species and replaced them with 700 ʻākulikuli, ʻakiʻaki, pōhuehue and milo, coastal plants that are known to have once grown abundantly in this area. This case study will inform future restoration work to build resilience along the Olowalu-Ukumehame coast.

Since the planting day on March 21, abundant rain, freshwater flow from the adjacent wetlands, and a little hand-watering by the team have helped the baby plants to get established and thrive!

#ukumehame #olowalu #hawaiiannativeplantmonth

The Olowalu-Ukumehame coastline of West Maui is eroding at an alarming rate, caused by rising sea levels, stronger storms and seasonal high tides and surf. As the shoreline erodes, Honoapi‘ilani Highway gets flooded and damaged, which can cause sediment and road materials to wash into the ocean and harm the nearshore Olowalu reef.

Rather than hardening the shoreline with seawalls or rock revetments, which can increase erosion and lead to beach loss, planting native coastal plants is a nature-based solution that can enhance sand dune formation and protect modern infrastructure. To learn more about how we can help to stabilize the sandy beach at Ukumehame Beach Park (traditionally known a Pāko’a), we are working on a pilot project with Hawaiʻi Sea Grant, the County of Maui, and Elizabeth Allen, a graduate student from the University of Hawaiʻi at Hilo. In two experimental plots, we removed invasive species and replaced them with 700 ʻākulikuli, ʻakiʻaki, pōhuehue and milo, coastal plants that are known to have once grown abundantly in this area. This case study will inform future restoration work to build resilience along the Olowalu-Ukumehame coast.

Since the planting day on March 21, abundant rain, freshwater flow from the adjacent wetlands, and a little hand-watering by the team have helped the baby plants to get established and thrive!

#ukumehame #olowalu #hawaiiannativeplantmonth

The Olowalu-Ukumehame coastline of West Maui is eroding at an alarming rate, caused by rising sea levels, stronger storms and seasonal high tides and surf. As the shoreline erodes, Honoapi‘ilani Highway gets flooded and damaged, which can cause sediment and road materials to wash into the ocean and harm the nearshore Olowalu reef.

Rather than hardening the shoreline with seawalls or rock revetments, which can increase erosion and lead to beach loss, planting native coastal plants is a nature-based solution that can enhance sand dune formation and protect modern infrastructure. To learn more about how we can help to stabilize the sandy beach at Ukumehame Beach Park (traditionally known a Pāko’a), we are working on a pilot project with Hawaiʻi Sea Grant, the County of Maui, and Elizabeth Allen, a graduate student from the University of Hawaiʻi at Hilo. In two experimental plots, we removed invasive species and replaced them with 700 ʻākulikuli, ʻakiʻaki, pōhuehue and milo, coastal plants that are known to have once grown abundantly in this area. This case study will inform future restoration work to build resilience along the Olowalu-Ukumehame coast.

Since the planting day on March 21, abundant rain, freshwater flow from the adjacent wetlands, and a little hand-watering by the team have helped the baby plants to get established and thrive!

#ukumehame #olowalu #hawaiiannativeplantmonth

The Olowalu-Ukumehame coastline of West Maui is eroding at an alarming rate, caused by rising sea levels, stronger storms and seasonal high tides and surf. As the shoreline erodes, Honoapi‘ilani Highway gets flooded and damaged, which can cause sediment and road materials to wash into the ocean and harm the nearshore Olowalu reef.

Rather than hardening the shoreline with seawalls or rock revetments, which can increase erosion and lead to beach loss, planting native coastal plants is a nature-based solution that can enhance sand dune formation and protect modern infrastructure. To learn more about how we can help to stabilize the sandy beach at Ukumehame Beach Park (traditionally known a Pāko’a), we are working on a pilot project with Hawaiʻi Sea Grant, the County of Maui, and Elizabeth Allen, a graduate student from the University of Hawaiʻi at Hilo. In two experimental plots, we removed invasive species and replaced them with 700 ʻākulikuli, ʻakiʻaki, pōhuehue and milo, coastal plants that are known to have once grown abundantly in this area. This case study will inform future restoration work to build resilience along the Olowalu-Ukumehame coast.

Since the planting day on March 21, abundant rain, freshwater flow from the adjacent wetlands, and a little hand-watering by the team have helped the baby plants to get established and thrive!

#ukumehame #olowalu #hawaiiannativeplantmonth

Policy makes conservation possible, from protecting our coasts to dealing with invasive species. At The Nature Conservancy, we're proud to be part of the coalition that helped pass the Green Fee (Act 96), which will raise approximately $100M a year for the state of Hawaiʻi—and thatʻs just the beginning.

Watch the full video on YouTube at https://nature.ly/4dFa3Wi

We need to do more.

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What the Flock! 🪶

Palmyra is home to 12 species of nesting seabirds, including the red-footed booby (ʻā), white tern (manu o kū) and white-tailed tropicbird (koaʻe kea). These birds serve as a link between the forest, coral reef and open-ocean ecosystem on the atoll. Like many islands and atolls across the Pacific, Palmyra lost many of its native seabirds because of invasive species and habitat degradation. Find out how TNC is helping bring these seabird populations back and how the lessons we’ve learned can help other islands, too.

#palmyraatoll #seabirds #Palmyra25

In the dappled light of Maui’s high elevation native forest, a view of kiwikiu (kee-wee-q), one of Hawaiʻi’s rare honeycreepers. ❤️

The critically endangered kiwikiu is found nowhere else on earth. These feathered island community members are a vital part of our island ecosystem and Hawaiian culture.

We work with our partners to ensure kiwikiu survival for generations to come.

📸 MFBRP
#nature #birds #hawaii #wildlife #endangeredspecies

Swipe for some quick facts about different species of non-edible limu. (Plus, they’re beautiful, too!) Our TNC marine fellows recently visited Maui Hikina (East Maui) and took these photos of limu as part of annual surveys with Nā Mamo O Mūʻolea, the Limu Hui, Ke Ao Hāliʻi, and Kīpahulu ‘Ohana.

Visit muolea.org to learn more.

📸 : Ho‘ohila Kawelo

Swipe for some quick facts about different species of non-edible limu. (Plus, they’re beautiful, too!) Our TNC marine fellows recently visited Maui Hikina (East Maui) and took these photos of limu as part of annual surveys with Nā Mamo O Mūʻolea, the Limu Hui, Ke Ao Hāliʻi, and Kīpahulu ‘Ohana.

Visit muolea.org to learn more.

📸 : Ho‘ohila Kawelo

Swipe for some quick facts about different species of non-edible limu. (Plus, they’re beautiful, too!) Our TNC marine fellows recently visited Maui Hikina (East Maui) and took these photos of limu as part of annual surveys with Nā Mamo O Mūʻolea, the Limu Hui, Ke Ao Hāliʻi, and Kīpahulu ‘Ohana.

Visit muolea.org to learn more.

📸 : Ho‘ohila Kawelo

Swipe for some quick facts about different species of non-edible limu. (Plus, they’re beautiful, too!) Our TNC marine fellows recently visited Maui Hikina (East Maui) and took these photos of limu as part of annual surveys with Nā Mamo O Mūʻolea, the Limu Hui, Ke Ao Hāliʻi, and Kīpahulu ‘Ohana.

Visit muolea.org to learn more.

📸 : Ho‘ohila Kawelo

Swipe for some quick facts about different species of non-edible limu. (Plus, they’re beautiful, too!) Our TNC marine fellows recently visited Maui Hikina (East Maui) and took these photos of limu as part of annual surveys with Nā Mamo O Mūʻolea, the Limu Hui, Ke Ao Hāliʻi, and Kīpahulu ‘Ohana.

Visit muolea.org to learn more.

📸 : Ho‘ohila Kawelo

Swipe for some quick facts about different species of non-edible limu. (Plus, they’re beautiful, too!) Our TNC marine fellows recently visited Maui Hikina (East Maui) and took these photos of limu as part of annual surveys with Nā Mamo O Mūʻolea, the Limu Hui, Ke Ao Hāliʻi, and Kīpahulu ‘Ohana.

Visit muolea.org to learn more.

📸 : Ho‘ohila Kawelo