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AWARDS
Best Student Presentation Awards
Each student awardee received a backpack donated by Patagonia and a monetary award donated by
HCA and The Wildlife Society, Hawai'i Chapter
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Best Student Oral Presentation
Luc Leblanc
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Best Student Poster Presentation
Meris Bantilan-Smith
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Runner-up: William Haines
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Runner-up: Frances Kinslow
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HCA Science Fair Awards
Each year, the Hawai'i Conservation Alliance grants monetary awards to several students participating in the annual Hawai'i State Science and Engineering Fair, a project of the Hawai'i Academy of Science. In addition to monetary awards, each student received a backpack donated by Patagonia and a registration fee waiver to participate in the 2007 Hawai'i Conservation Conference. They were invited to present their research at the Poster Session on July 25, 2007 and were eligible to compete in the conference's Best Student Poster Competition. Read more on Science Fair Awards.
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Jacob L. Garner
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Guy Parker Miller and Riles Alexander Martinez
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2007 Distinguished Service Award
Dr. Isabella Aiona Abbott
University of Hawai'i at Mānoa
Each year since 1997 the Hawai‘i Conservation Alliance has recognized persons reaching the highest esteem within the conservation community. These persons are nominated by their peers and voted upon by the partners of the Hawai'i Conservation Alliance
The 2007 HCA Distinguished Service Award was presented to Dr. Isabella Abbott for her more than 60 years of research, publications, and mentorship on limu and ethonobotany. The award honors exceptional service, personal effort and unselfish interest, embodying long-term dedication and tenacity in environmental conservation for the Hawaiian Islands. Read more about award HCA Press Release List of past awards
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Celia Smith with Dr. Abbott's daughter, Annie, accepting award |
Dr. Abbott |
HCA Outstanding Leadership Award
Mr. Peter Young
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This award is given to a person who has demonstrated exceptional leadership in advancing environmental conservation in Hawai‘i over the short to medium term (several years to a decade). Examples of such leadership may be seen in creating avenues for rapid advancement in conservation through influencing management or programs that lead to significant better protection of the Hawai‘i’s native ecosystems. The award is determined by nomination and seconded, with majority consensus by the HCA partnership.
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Loyal Mehrhoff (HCA Chair) and Peter Young |
Mr. Young has been an exceptionally strong leader in the conservation of Hawai‘i’s unique plants, animals, and the ecosystems that they inhabit. During his tenure as the Chair of the Board of Land and Natural Resources, the Department of Land and Natural Resources made significant strides in the sustainable use of natural and cultural resources. Key accomplishments include protection of the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands as the Papahānaumokuākea Marine National Monument, implementation of lay gill net regulations to provide long-term sustainability of Hawai‘i’s fisheries, overseeing a significant increase in the budget to protect Hawai‘i’s natural resources, strengthening forestry and wildlife watershed partnerships, overseeing significant improvements in water resource management, increased partnering with communities and agencies for conservation land acquisitions, and tackled other major issues in biodiversity conservation, land programs, and alien species management. Mr. Young’s leadership has been instrumental in furthering the protection of Hawai‘i’s natural resources. |
HCA Conservation Innovation Award
U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
Conservation Partnerships Program
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This award is given to the instigators or champions of a procedure that leads to significant advances to the structure or nature of environmental conservation in Hawai'i. Examples of such procedure may be the creating of legislation that changes the dynamics of management, or programs that lead to significant better protection of the Hawai'i’s native ecosystems.
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Craig Rowland, Chris Swenson, Benton Kealii Pang, and Adonia Henry |
Craig Rowland |
The mission statement of the Conservation Partnerships Program is “to restore and protect native habitats by developing positive relationships with landowners, identifying biological resources and threats, implementing projects, monitoring results, and sharing information.”
The Conservation Partnerships Program is comprised of the following:
• Partners for Fish and Wildlife – Cost-sharing and technical assistance for long-term habitat restoration projects on private land;
• Pacific Islands Coastal Program – A new effort to identify important coastal resource problems and solutions, develop partnerships to carry out on-the-ground conservation projects, and encourage community action in high priority coastal areas;
• Private Stewardship Grants – A focused effort to address high-priority habitat restoration needs of species that are endangered, threatened, candidates or species of concern on private lands; and
• Other Funding - The Conservation Partnerships Program has been able to obtain funding from various other USFWS programs for a number of partnership programs. This program has taken a unique and highly effective approach of combining resources in order to focus on collaborative efforts that conserve or restore large portions of ecosystems while still addressing species-specific conservation. The program completed over $6 million in restoration and conservation projects in the last two years alone, including The North Kona Dryland Forest Restoration Group, The Ola‘a-Kīlauea Partnership, Imi pono no ka ‘āina: A Partnership for Environmental Education, Maui Restoration Group (Auwahi) and Pu‘uokali Wiliwili Forest Reserve Project, and Leeward Haleakalā Restoration Watershed Restoration Partnership.
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