MPW and Hui Kū Maoli Ola, along with partnership with Waimea Valley‘s Botanical Department, held our first Native Plants Community Training Workshop at Sharks Cove.
This training, led by Matt Schirman of Hui Kū Maoli Ola, enabled both keiki and adults alike to learn about the value and vulnerability of coastal and ocean ecosystems and the importance of including use of native plants in landscaping and gardening.
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Matt brought a variety of Native plant species as examples and even gave most of them away to the over 30 participants as prizes for correct quiz answers!
This Community Training is part of MPW’s Community Planting Project, a pilot project to restore the coastline above Sharks Cove. Community volunteers at Sharks Cove and the surrounding Pūpūkea area of the Marine Life Conservation District (MLCD) have noted a significant increase in erosion over the past 10 years as use has increased. The goal of the project is to reduce the flow of sediment from eroded areas of Sharks Cove onto the coral reef below.
Working in strong partnership with the City and County of Honolulu Department of Parks and Recreation and with technical assistance from Hui Kū Maoli Ola, MPW volunteers will remove invasive exotic weeds and install native plants. Native coastal plants will vegetate eroded, non-paved footpaths and hold in place soil currently eroding into the MLCD from the banks of Pūpūkea Beach Park
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We will keep you posted on additional trainings and community work days. For more information, please visit our website at www.pupukeawaimea.org or email Jenny, Director of Educational Programs at kaipuna@aol.com.
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