By Jaya C Dupuis | CEO/President/Project Director
With several new hired forest technicians, restoration efforts in Keau’ohana brought a strong completion to 2022. Hawaii Environmental Restoration’s (HER) focuses now on more effectively caring for the forest by aspiring towards at least one systematic pass of the entire restoration site within a year. In fact it appears we may even be a couple months ahead of schedule as we near the completion of our 6th pass. HER long term commitment reveals a realistic approach to this cherished forest in crisis!
Community outreach and education this year has gained a post-pandemic momentum for a total of 22 Special Volunteer Events in celebration of Earth week/National Volunteer week/Hawaiian Native Plant month, our usual Solstice and Equinoxes quarterly event, and other special school and/or community group events (Taylor University, Indianna; Trinity University, BC Canada; Lake Champlain Waldorf, Vermont; BIPOC, Rustic Pathways, and our local UHH as customary). When considering all volunteer events in 2022, HER accumulated 879 volunteer hours from 218 volunteers, and a total of 247 seedlings were planted.
We at Hawaii Environmental Restoration face the future with growing inspiration and are sincerely grateful to all who recognize HER contribution to Hawaii’s challenged environment. This work can only be accomplished by joining forces with like-hearted people. We encourage you to please view our website blog ( https://hawaiienvironmentalrestoration.org/blog/) to learn more about the details of our year’s accomplishment made possible by you, our caring global community.
Have a look at our newly recorded youtube presentation (https://youtu.be/gB22srZoZ5U) on what it means to “Malama O Ka ‘Aina” / Take Care of the Land”, here in Hawai’i. It also shares about our environmental work in the forest and how this relates to questions of sustainability.
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