Conservation

A study from a team of Hawaiʻi researchers reveals that if all the fallow agricultural land was converted into agroforests, it would counteract the carbon emissions of 100 million barrels of oil. Leah Bremer and Kawika Winter spoke with The Conversation about their group's research.

Officials gathered Monday at Honolulu airport to launch Akamai Arrival, a pilot program that will roll out digital declaration forms on select domestic routes. The Conversation spoke to Jonathan Ho, plant quarantine branch manager for the state Department of Agriculture, to learn more.

Hawaiian crows are extinct in the wild and are found nowhere else on Earth. Now, a small group, safeguarded in captivity, has been released in the forests of Maui.

An executive order issued by President Donald Trump has halted some local climate work. HPR's Savannah Harriman-Pote spoke to Native Hawaiian organizations whose climate projects are in limbo.

Should boat tours, aquarium fishing and other activities in state-monitored areas be allowed before completing an environmental review? It’s something lawmakers are considering. HPR's Mark Ladao has more.

How could President Donald Trump’s second term affect fishing and ocean conservation in the Pacific Ocean? HPR's Mark Ladao spoke with local leaders about the potential changes under the new administration.

In this year of our community forests, HPR has been highlighting programs in place to help engage people across the state. In honor of that, The Conversation spoke to former National Tropical Botanical Garden President and CEO Chipper Wichman about its 60 years of work.

HPR met two staffers who tend to the ʻulu forest daily at the McBryde Garden on Kauaʻi. The Conversation talked to Neal Uno and Julia Ávila with the National Tropical Botanical Garden's Breadfruit Institute about the plant.

Every month there is a new native plant that kamaʻāina can adopt for free. Species have included ʻilima, native hibiscuses, ʻōhiʻa, loulu palms, ʻulu and more. We talked to NTBG Communications Director David Bryant about the program.

A new study directly looks at the effects of plastic in Maui’s ‘ua’u kani, also known as wedge-tailed shearwaters. The Conversation spoke to Nicole Mejia, a graduate student at Cornell University, and Scott Edwards, chair of the Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology at Harvard University.