Keynote Title What Water Rights in West Maui Can Teach Us About Fire & Conservation 

Keynote Title ‘Tai Timu, Tai Pari; The tide ebbs, The tide flows, Tides of change.’

Keynote Title Panelist Pahonu Coleman, Tahaʻa Kahele, Tate Keliʻihoʻomalu

Keynote Title by Dr. Manulani Aluli Meyer, International Indigenous Scholar-Practitioner & Konohiki (Facilitator) at Kūlana o Kapolei (A Hawaiian Place of Learning at UH West Oahu)

Keynote Title by Dr. Manulani Aluli Meyer, International Indigenous Scholar-Practitioner & Konohiki (Facilitator) at Kūlana o Kapolei (A Hawaiian Place of Learning at UH West Oahu)

Keynote Title by Dr. Manulani Aluli Meyer, International Indigenous Scholar-Practitioner & Konohiki (Facilitator) at Kūlana o Kapolei (A Hawaiian Place of Learning at UH West Oahu)

Ho'i Hou Ka Mauli Ola: Pathways to Our Essential Nature by Kealoha Fox, President & Senior Advisor at the Institute for Climate & Peace Speaker Biography Kealoha Fox applies Indigenous innovation for collaborative solutions in business, science, and policy and…

Why Would a University President Care about Conservation? by David Lassner, President of the University of Hawaiʻi Speaker Biography David Lassner is the 15th president of the University of Hawaiʻi, the state’s sole provider of public higher education. In that…

Kūlia i ka Huliau - Transforming our Economy Over the last year and a half, we all experienced profound changes to our daily lives caused by the global pandemic. With a near complete halt to travel, the economic driver of…

Kūlia i ka Huliau - Transforming our Food Systems Many of us in conservation fields recognize the importance of and potential complications in significantly increasing our local food production while balancing the needs of our native ecosystems and other sustainability…

Kūlia i ka Huliau - Transforming Law and Policy Around the world and in Hawaiʻi, leaders in our conservation and legal communities have been working to implement existing laws and policies that enable effective conservation while developing new innovative approaches…

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Confirmed: Gov. David Ige, Congresswoman Colleen Hanabusa, Andria Tupola, and John Carroll The Hawaiʻi Conservation Alliance Foundation is pleased to announce that it will be hosting a Gubernatorial Candidates Forum on the Environment. The forum will be an opportunity for…

Hawaiʻi Conservation Alliance Foundations and Futures Brutus La Benz, Legacy Land Specialist for Office of Hawaiian Affairs The Hawai’i Conservation Alliance (Alliance) is a collaboration of conservation leaders representing government, cultural, educational, and non-profit organizations from across the state. Collectively, we…

Biocultural Approaches and Community-based Conservation Fikret Berkes, University of Manitoba, Canada Trends in biodiversity conservation indicate increasing use of participatory approaches such as community-based conservation, co-management, community-conserved areas, and biocultural principles. Biodiversity conservation “by, for, and with the local community”…

David Helvarg is President of the Blue Frontier Campaign and the author of three books, Blue Frontier-Dispatches from America’s Ocean Wilderness, The War Against the Greens, and 50 Ways to Save the Ocean. He is editor of the Ocean and…

Dr. J. Michael Scott is a senior scientist with the U.S. Geological Survey, a professor in the Department of Fish and Wildlife Resources at the University of Idaho, and a leader with the Idaho Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Research Unit.…

Michael Soulé is Professor Emeritus of Environmental Studies, University of California, Santa Cruz. He was born, raised, and educated in California. After spending much of his youth in the canyons, deserts, and intertidal of San Diego and Baja California, and…

From his earliest years, armed with sling shot and bb‐gun, Bryan Harry tagged along with his dad hunting and fishing. This led to his interest in studying wildlife. He received a B.S. at Michigan and an M.S. at Colorado State,…

Peter Vitousek was born in Honolulu, and graduated from HPA in 1967. He got his PhD from Dartmouth in 1975, and taught at Indiana University and the University of North Carolina before joining the faculty of Stanford University in 1984.…

Dr. Norse has worked at the conservation science‐policy interface for his entire career. After earning his B.S. in Biology from Brooklyn College, he studied the ecology of blue crabs in the Caribbean for his Ph.D. at University of Southern California…

Sylvia Earle, called "Her Deepness" by the New Yorker and the New York Times, "Living Legend" by the Library of Congress, and the first "Hero for the Planet," is an oceanographer, explorer, author, and lecturer with experience as a field…

Togiola T.A. Tulafono was born on February 28, 1947 on Aunu’u Island, American Samoa and graduated from the High School of American Samoa-Samoana in 1966. He graduated from the Honolulu Police Academy in 1967 and received a bachelor’s degree in…

HCA Free Public Lecture Feathered Treasures: Hawai‘i’s Forest Birds – Past, Present and Future Big Island photographer and wildlife biologist Jack Jeffrey, is intimately familiar with Hawai‘i’s hidden valleys, remote rainforests, and rare birds. He brings to his photographic images…

Aroha Te Pareake Mead is from Ngati Awa and Ngati Porou. She was elected Chair of the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) Commission on Environmental, Economic and Social Policy (CEESP) in November 2008 for a four year term.…

Kapua Kawelo, her husband Joby Rohrer and sister Hi‘ilei Kawelo have a passion for caring for Hawai‘i’s natural communities from mauka to makai. They carry on the passion and commitment to “mālama i ka ‘āina” instilled in them by their…

I Hawai‘i no nā Hawai‘i i ka ‘āina: We Are Who We Are Because of Where We Are Neil Hannahs directs the Land Assets Division of Kamehameha Schools which is responsible for a portfolio of 358,000 acres of agriculture and…