There is nothing more authentic to Hawaiʻi than celebrating the natural environment as kin, and nothing more unique than our endemic flora and fauna family. 

 

Honua, all of natureʻs creatures, features and elemental phenomena, are not only the foundation of life in Hawaiʻi but also considered elder family members. Through the place-based leadership of our ʻŌiwi Resources & Stewardship department guided by CJ Elizares, we tune in to the dream of Honua in Honuaʻula, we are actively working towards reestablishing a leeward, low, dryland forest with a soundscape animated by a chorus of native birds and a dynamic ocean scape pulsing with the ebb and flow of a robust underwater ecosystem.

 

We depend on this intimacy with our Honua family to sustain us in Honuaʻula. We are grateful for the opportunity to invite you to deepen your relationship with some of our most precious natural resource kin in our "Meet the Mākena Family" series.