Reforestation

Mahalo to JAL for planting trees at our Legacy Forest at Haleiwa! Mahalo JAL!

<p style="white-space:pre-wrap;" data-rte-preserve-empty="true">Do you like these trees so grand?</p><p class="" style="text-align: center; ; white-space:pre-wrap;" data-rte-preserve-empty="true"></p>

<p class="">This prestigious award is the highest honor given.</p>

<p class="">This year, Ryan Owan and his team used social media and word-of-mouth to spread the word about their reforestation efforts with HLRI and planted 1,000 trees in 2023!&nbsp;</p>

<p class="">ʻAha Mele festival is sponsored by ANA (All Nippon Airways) to&nbsp;connect with the people of Hawaii through music and to continue protecting Hawaii's culture and environment.</p>

<p class="">The Girls Varsity Volleyball team from Medicine Hat High School in Alberta, Canada “killed” it when they got their&nbsp;hands dirty at the Legacy Forest at Haleiwa.</p>

<p class="">On Saturday, September 16, 2023, Eco Rotary of Kaka'ako planned a volunteer work day…</p>

<p class="">Planting trees of hope, trees to help heal our earth, and trees for our keiki is what the Lutheran Church of Honolulu did…</p>

<p class="">Eco Rotary of Kaka’ako and HI Pyro volunteered with Hawaiian Legacy in the Legacy Forest at La’ie at Gunstock Ranch.</p>

The Kahala Hotel & Resort Source: San Francisco Magazine

Mahalo @rotary_d5000 @pacificbuddhistacademy ! It was the day after St. Patrick's Day and Eco Rotary of Kaka'ako and their team of volunteers were greening up Hawaii. They added another 243 native Hawaiian trees on a hillside overlooking the Rotary District 5000 Legacy Forest in Lai'e. Totalling 9,420 native trees that Rotary volunteers have planted by hand! These hala, ma'o, lonomea, and wiliwili plants have a good chance of surviving with the care from the Hawaiian Legacy

The steep and rocky hillside overlooking the Rotary Legacy Forest was teeming with Rotarians and their families and friends when Eco Rotary of Kakaʻako held their Volunteer Service Day in mid-January. Someday, that hillside will be a blanket of white Maʻo cotton and other native Hawaiian plants. Hawaiian Legacy Reforestation Initiative is grateful for the Rotarians' commitment to Hawaii and our environment.

<p class="">Federal wildlife officials aim to direct some $14 million from the new <a href="https://www.whitehouse.gov/bipartisan-infrastructure-law/"><span style="text-decoration:underline">Bipartisan Infrastructure Law</span></a> toward the <a href="https://www.civilbeat.org/beat/bird-rescuers-desperately-seek-kauai-honeycreepers-as-the-species-faces-extinction/"><span style="text-decoration:underline">urgent, ongoing effort</span></a> to save 12 native Hawaiian forest bird

OTONA NO HAWAII Source: OTONA NO HAWAII

<p class="">The Westin Hapuna Beach Resort is making a commitment to go carbon neutral.</p><p class="">The Hawaii Island resort recently announced a new partnership with the Hawaiian Legacy Reforestation Initiative to create a 100,000-tree forest on-property.</p>

<p class="">It’s nearly winter in Hawai‘i but it feels like summer. On this unseasonably hot, sticky December day, hundreds of volunteers are standing in an empty field at Gunstock Ranch on O‘ahu’s North Shore, awaiting instructions.</p>

<p class="">What does the future of Hawaii hold? <a href="https://www.hawaiianelectric.com/">Hawaiian Electric</a> wants to make sure it’s green. The company’s <a href="https://footprint.hawaiianelectric.com/#/">Project Footprint Initiative</a> was launched in 2019 with the aim of creating a system that incentivizes customers to help build a more sustainable future.</p>

<p class="">Poems have been written about the loveliness of trees, but less so on how they serve to bolster the fight against climate change. If the planet is becoming generally warmer, as scientists say, the advantage of enlarging the islands’ tree canopy should be obvious.</p>

<p class="">HLRI &amp; The Carbon Neutrality Project partner to reforest 10,000 native and endemic trees at Gunstock Ranch on Oahu.</p>

<p class="" style="white-space:pre-wrap;">HLRI recently named Coachella Valley resident&nbsp;<strong>Francis A. Wong</strong>&nbsp;as its new chairman of the board. “I am excited to be elected as chairman and lead a team of exceptional individuals,” Wong said. </p>