We were honored this summer to host a group of fantastic KUPU – Hawai‘i Youth Conservation Corps (HYCC) interns for a week. HYCC is centered on environmental conservation, restoration, education, and cultural awareness. HYCC gives individuals the opportunity to work outdoors with environmental agencies (like MPW) across Hawai‘i and to learn the principles of natural resource stewardship, […]
Archives for July 2015
Resource Management
Ka Papa Kai, our Marine Science for Youth program, is back in session and the students spent their first class learning all about traditional resource management and how it translates into resource protection today. Using the ahupua‘a model as a guide, students learned how what happens mauka (uplands) affects makai (ocean/shore) and explored ways to […]