Hawaiʻi is an epicenter of species imperilment, where conservation-reliant species are facing various threats that cannot be eliminated, but only control management and continuing species-specific management efforts may be needed for a very long time. Testing innovative solution-based practices to restore and regenerate critical species for perpetuation of future generations. This track will explore research, tools, best practice methods, and successful regeneration and restoration methods:

• Enabling conditions that restore and regenerate ecosystems
• Intentional and direct regeneration (e.g. propagation)
• Species translocation and assisted colonization, genetic modification, permanent phase shifts etc.
• Improvements in propagation techniques
• New findings in phylogenetics and taxonomic groupings
• Conservation genetics applications and innovations
• Novel surveillance and monitoring technologies
• New research that targets restoration and opportunities in terrestrial, aquatic, and marine biosecurity
• Novelty Best Practice (BP) methods that have shown to restore and address established invasive species: management, eradication, adaptation
• Innovative policy solutions
• Techniques to better manage urban and high trafficked ecosystems

This track invites content organized around specific ahupuaʻa and/or moku. Research and management projects that address needs in ahupuaʻa restoration focusing on community and culturally centered efforts that bridge terrestrial and marine stewardship, conservation, and restoration. Identifying pathways that enable support systems and holistic approaches to advance cross-sector community collaboration practice. This track will identify but not limited to pathways to advance community and culturally centered restoration efforts in present-day contexts, improved environmental outcomes, shared models of practice, and strengthened partnerships between all involved, stewardship, conservation, resource management, and community-based practitioners:

• Sustainable finance, revenue generation, and value(s) add
• Government partnerships and collaborations
• Information and data management, storage, and sharing
• Connecting with diverse sectors and user groups to advance restoration
• Connecting ma uka (terrestrial) and ma kai (marine) restoration efforts
• Legacy planning

Recognizing the need to build and maintain meaningful partnerships across multi-organizational sectors to enhance new innovative and collective conservation needs of the future. This track encourages presentations that foster communication and exchange within the conservation community across various sectors, which include, but are not limited to:

• Building and sustaining partnerships in conservationwith multiple organizations
• Working across boundaries, interdisciplinary, cross-sector collaborations, and approaches
• Diversified funding strategies and innovative sustainable financing mechanisms
• Growing an inclusive culture of conservation across sectors
• Connecting action to policy and solutions

This track will explore innovative conservation capacity building and educational programs that advance the conservation workforce of the future:

• Building and highlighting conservation career pathways for interns, students, and emerging professionals
• Knowledge exchange across generations for familial and institutional succession planning
• Innovative capacity, education, and training programs
• Target the youth to build kuleana through conservation related activities and jobs to inspire the future generation workforce

This track will focus on the foundations of community-based and culturally integrated conservation and examples of innovations. Session proposals may include, but are not limited to:

• Community co-management of biocultural resources
• Rebuilding and growing biocultural foundations in conservation
• Indigenous languages in conservation practice
• Cultural values and practice in contemporary resource management
• Indigenous approaches to science and resource stewardship